Carole Horne

general manager, Harvard Book Store

Carole Horne headed the Harvard Book Store buying department from 1978 until July 2007, when she became the General Manager. A booklover since her childhood in Texas, after moving to Boston she went on to get her M.A. in English Literature. She has been active in the bookselling community, having served with the New England Booksellers Association, the American Booksellers Association, and the Independent Booksellers Consortium. A frequent speaker at regional and national conventions, she has also been on the faculty of ABA Booksellers School since 1988, teaching in the U.S. and in Central Europe. [Source: http://www.harvard.com/events/press\_release.php?id=2426]