Helen Warren DeGolyer

Helen Warren DeGolyer

Helen Warren DeGolyer was a well-known supporter of the arts and education in Dallas for many years. She was also an artist and a gifted bookbinder. To honor her memory and love of books, her children—Everett Lee DeGolyer and Edith DeGolyer—established an endowment in 1996 to create the Helen Warren DeGolyer Triennial Exhibition and Award for American Bookbinding at Bridwell Library. Past competitions have given us extraordinary design bindings by Donald Etherington for the 1928 Updike Book of Common Prayer on vellum and by Bruce Levy for the first edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses.