Richard Barksdale Harwell, librarian, bibliographer, and author, was born 6 June 1915, in Washington, Georgia, and died March 9, 1988, in Augusta, Georgia. He graduated from Emory University (English, 1937; Library Science, 1938) and received an honorary doctorate from New England College (1966). Harwell wrote and edited several books about the Civil War, Confederate imprints, and Gone With The Wind, and was the compiler of many bibliographies and the author of numerous pamphlets, articles, and reviews.