KNICKERBOCKER, Wendy 1948-

PERSONAL: Born December 9, 1948, in Bar Harbor, ME; daughter of Charles H. (a physician and novelist) and Julia C. Knickerbocker; married David E. Avery (a scientist and teacher), April 20, 1985. Ethnicity: "White, Anglo-Saxon Protestant." Education: Attended Vassar College, 1966-68; Colby College, B.A. (cum laude), 1973; Simmons College, M.S., 1980. Politics: Liberal. Religion: Society of Friends (Quakers). Hobbies and other interests: Baseball, nature study, reading.

ADDRESSES: Home—P.O. Box 675, Castine, ME 04421. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Harfax Database Publishing, Cambridge, MA, editor, 1980-83; College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME, cataloging specialist at Thorndike Library, 1983-85; Biospherics, Inc., Beltsville, MD, onsite cataloging project manager in Library Services Division, 1985-88; Rhode Island College, Providence, catalog and reference librarian at James P. Adams Library and assistant professor, 1988-97; Maine Maritime Academy, Castine, director of library services for Nutting Memorial Library, 1997-2002.

MEMBER: American Library Association, American Studies Association, Association of College and Research Libraries, New England Association of College and Research Libraries, Phi Beta Kappa, Beta Phi Mu.

AWARDS, HONORS: Seymour Medal, Society for American Baseball Research, 2001, for Sunday at the Ballpark: Billy Sunday's Professional Baseball Career, 1883-1890.

WRITINGS:

(With Patricia B. M. Brennan, Rachel H. Carpenter, and Frank P. Notarianni) Every Day Is Earth Day: A Resource List, James P. Adams Library (Providence, RI), 1990.

Sunday at the Ballpark: Billy Sunday's ProfessionalBaseball Career, 1883-1890, Scarecrow Press (Lanham, MD), 2000.

Contributor to books; contributor of articles, editorials, and reviews to periodicals, including Library Journal.