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Jane Gillson Langton is an American writer and author of children's literature and mystery novels. She both writes and illustrates her novels.

✵ 30. December 1922 – 22. December 2018
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Jane Langton Quotes

“To Homer, libraries were holy places like churches, and the priestly librarians a blessed race, a saving remnant in a world of sin. Whenever God grew impatient and decided to destroy the world he remembered the librarians and stayed his hand.”

Jane Langton
God , World

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