David Horace Clift

David Horace Clift (June 16, 1907 – October 12, 1973) He was named by the ALA as one of the 100 Most Important [Library] Leaders of the 20th Century.

Biography Clift was born in Washington, Kentucky, on June 16, 1907, to Charles L. Sr. and Mary E. (Tomlin) Clift. He attended and graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1930. During his college years, he briefly worked at the Lexington Public Library. "[He] was exposed, for example to the ambitious project known as Armed Forces Editions, a program that introduced hundreds of thousands of GIs to paperback books…" He was responsible for moving the association's headquarters from rented space to a permanent location in an abandoned mansion in Chicago.

Clift died on October 12, 1973.

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