Bet you didn't know this about the late economist John Kenneth Galbraith: As a child growing up in Canada, he was an avid reader who remembered the day the local library changed its lending policy from two books every two weeks to unlimited borrowing.
The information is from Galbraith's obituary in the Globe and Mail newspaper and is the kind of tidbit that would excite obituary reader and writer Marilyn Johnson, author of "The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries."
Listen to an interview with Johnson.
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