Disappearing Ink: The Insider, the FBI, and the Looting of the Kenyon College Library, McDade Travis

In October 1990 Kenyon College hired David Breithaupt as its librarys part-time evening supervisor. In April 2000 he was fired after a Georgia librarian discovered him selling a letter by Flannery OConnor on eBay, but that was only the tip of the iceberg: for the past ten years, Breithaupt had been browsing the collection, taking from it whatever rare books, manuscripts, and documents caught his eye-Flannery OConnor letters, W.H. Auden annotated typescripts, a Thomas Pynchon manuscript, and much, much more. It was a large-scale, long-term pillaging of Kenyon Colleges most precious works.