Marguerite Hicks

Marguerite Hicks
Born
Marguerite B. Bieber

(1891-10-19)October 19, 1891
DiedMay 9, 1978(1978-05-09) (aged 86)
NationalityAmerican
Known forrare books collection
Formal waist-up black-and-white photograph of a white woman in a black lace dress, wearing pearls, her white hair curled, wearing cat-eye glasses. She is leaning on a faux marble Grecian-style column.
Formal photograph of Marguerite Bieber Hicks, from Oakland University Archives c. 1960s/1970s

Marguerite Bieber Hicks (October 19, 1891 – May 9, 1978) was a queer and disabled Detroit socialite, notable for acquiring a large collection of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century books by women in the 1930s and 1940s.