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Robert B. Downs
Robert Bingham Downs (May 25, 1903 – February 24, 1991) was a prolific American author and librarian. Downs was an advocate for intellectual freedom as well.〔Donald G. Davis, D. G. D. J. (2003). Dictionary of American Library Biography: Second Supplement, Libraries Unlimited.〕 Downs spent the majority of his career working against, and voicing opposition to, literary censorship. Downs authored many books and publications regarding the topics of censorship, and on the topics of responsible and efficient leadership in the library context.〔
==Life ==
Robert Downs was born May 25, 1903, in the southern small town of Lenoir, North Carolina, United States.〔Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2008. Reproduced in (Biography Resource Center. ) Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008.〕 He was the seventh child of eight of Mr. John McLeod, an educator and local part-time politico, and Clarissa Catherine Hartley Downs, who suffered from periodic ambulatory incapacity.〔〔 Downs married classmate Elizabeth Crooks in 1929. Elizabeth and Robert had two daughters Clara (Mrs. William Keller) and Roberta (Mrs. Terence Andre). In 1982, Elizabeth Downs died.〔 Subsequently, Robert Downs was remarried to Jane Wilson in 1983. Downs has three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.〔 He was a supporter of the Democratic Party. Robert B. Downs died at the age of 87 of pneumonia in 1991 at his home in the city of Urbana, Illinois.〔Unknown (1991). Robert B. Downs, 87, Librarian and Author. ''New York Times''.〕
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