Brad Meltzer:"Don’t Close the Book on Libraries!"

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Brad Meltzer, author of the New York Times No. 1 best-seller, The Book of Fate, is a passionate supporter of libraries. In an op-ed published Sunday in the Miami Herald, he urges Americans to contact their legislators to ask that funding for libraries be maintained.

Said Meltzer, "These days especially, we’re all worried about life. But what we’re forgetting is our legacy. Libraries are vital to our nation in ways that go far beyond dollars and cents. They lift us from our small universe and plant us in an infinite one. They remind us of our own potential. And when you think of the books inside them: Stories aren’t the beauty of what did happen. They’re the beauty of what could happen.

"You kill a library and you kill all that potential — which is why it is so hard to believe, even in today’s economy, that libraries are regarded as dispensable."

Meltzer is also participating in "Our Authors, Ours Advocates," a national library advocacy campaign and key initiative of American Library Association President Roberta Stevens. View the public service announcement Meltzer recorded in support of libraries.

Read the op-ed, "Don’t close the book on libraries!"

Raised in Brooklyn and Miami, Brad is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Columbia Law School. His books best-selling books, The Tenth Justice, Dead Even, The First Counsel, The Millionaires, The Zero Game and The Book of Lies have been translated into more than 25 languages, from Hebrew to Bulgarian.  He is the host of Brad Meltzer's Decoded on the History Channel, and his newest thriller, The Inner Circle, was released on January 11, 2011.