Rosengren’s Books: An Oasis for Mind and Spirit

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Virtually each and every San Antonio citizen over a certain age with any interest in literature will have vivid memories of Rosengren’s Books. It was once the absolute center of literary culture not only in San Antonio, but in Texas, for decades. Indeed, from the 1930s to the 1980s, Rosengren’s Books was once thought to be one of the crucial finest bookstores between New York and San Francisco. It was once a mid-continent haven for writers as diverse as Frost, John Dos Pasos, J. Frank Dobie, and Larry McMurtry. Rosengren’s Books: An Oasis for Mind and Spirit is the story of a great American circle of relatives of independent booksellers and the important literary institution they created. Beginning as a rare book store in Chicago, Frank and Florence Rosengren brought the store to San Antonio, Texas, in 1935. Positioned in more than a few downtown locations, it became most well referred to as the charming book shop in the back of the Alamo, where it was once visited by hundreds of thousands of tourists from around the globe. At the heart of the story is Florence Rosengren, whom former San Antonio mayor Phil Hardberger calls the “Sylvia Beach of South Texas” and Texas Observer founding editor Ronnie Dugger described as “the chief guardian of civilization from here to Mexico City.”
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