Hollister, Paul M., 1918-2004

"A native of New York City, Paul attended Milton Academy and Harvard College, graduating in 1941 with a Bachelor of Science degree in the fine arts. During his youth, he and his family traveled to Europe several times, and he later drew on these experiences, writing about transatlantic travel and the Crystal Palace, which he visited in the London suburb of Sydenham before it burned in 1936."

This obituary includes a bibliography of Hollister's writing.

"Hollister would go on to publish several more books and museum catalogs on the subject of paperweights including Glass Paperweights of the New-York Historical Society (1974), Glass Paperweights: An Old Craft Revived (1975) and Paperweights: Flowers Which Clothe the Meadows (1978), the catalog for an exhibition of over 300 paperweights that he curated with Dwight Lanmon for The Corning Museum of Glass."

Regarding his turn from paperweight scholarship: “At that point I was writing about all sorts of other types of glass and getting into that…. It was time to start something new”