Marguerite Hicks

alt=Formal waist-up black-and-white photograph of a white woman in a black lace dress, wearing pearls, her white hair curled, wearing cat-eye glasses. She is leaning on a faux marble Grecian-style column. Formal photograph of Marguerite Bieber Hicks, from Oakland University Archives c. 1960s/1970s Marguerite Bieber Hicks (October 19, 1891 – May 9, 1978) was a queer and disabled Detroit socialite, notable for acquiring a large collection of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century books by women in the 1930s and 1940s.

Biography

Marguerite Bieber was born October 19, 1891 She married Roy Carl Hicks, an accountant for the Dodge motor company, in 1915.

James and Hicks had certainly met by 1937, indicated by one of the books in Hicks' collection bearing the inscription "To Marguerite with much love, Thelma. M. A. Wayne University, June 17th, 1937." Due to Hicks' increasing blindness, James handled most of Hicks' correspondence, beginning as early as 1938.