Martha Mitchell (author)

Martha Mitchell was an American librarian and archivist. She was the longtime archivist at Brown University and author of Encyclopedia Brunoniana, a reference work on Brown's history.
A native of Seekonk, Massachusetts, she attended Tufts University and earned a degree in library science from McGill University. She began working at Brown as a librarian in 1949 and led the archives from the 1960s until her retirement in 2003.
She became known as the university's "unofficial historian" and "trivia whiz," with an "encyclopedic mind was filled with all things Brown."