Bart Auerbach ’58

Bart died April 30, 2021, in New York City. He was 83.

Bart came to Princeton from Friends Select in Philadelphia. He was a member of Elm Club, majored in history, and was active in Theatre Intime. 

He left Princeton early and graduated from New York University. He went on to a career in the rare-books market, eventually becoming one of the three or four best appraisers of archives in the country. This was a matter of going to wherever the writer lived, going through correspondence, manuscripts, and whatever else the writer had collected, and appraising it, usually in advance of the writer donating the archive to a library or museum or, if not donating it, selling it. He appraised the Toni Morrison archive, the archives of various literary magazines, and the archives of many prominent writers in addition to Morrison.

Bart was a member and former president of the Old Book Table, a social club composed of people in the rare-books field. He was highly respected and fondly thought of by his colleagues and all who had dealings with him.  

Bart is survived by his wife of 48 years, Joan Sudolnik, a retired judge whom he met on a plane to Club Med in 1971; his son, Scott Auerbach; daughter-in-law Aiah Wieder; and granddaughter Imogen Auerbach. The class extends its deepest sympathy to them all.