One headline about this engagement read "Senator Plans to Marry Co-Owner of N.Y. Bookstore." In Shelf Awareness, we prefer "Strand Co-Owner Plans to Marry Senator."
While visiting Portland, Ore., last summer, in large part to see Powell's Books, Nancy Bass, owner with her father of the Strand, New York City, met Oregon Senator Ron Wyden (D., of course). They browsed at Powell's, walked in a park and apparently hit it off. Yesterday the Senator's office announced that the two will marry later this year in a "small, private" ceremony. It is her first marriage and his second. They plan to buy a home in the Portland area, but Bass emphasized to the Oregonian that she will continue running the Strand and travel regularly to Washington, D.C., and Portland.
Wyden's father, the late Peter Wyden, was an author (Stella: One Woman's True Tale of Evil, Betrayal, and Survival in Hitler's Germany; Day One: Before Hiroshima and After; The Hitler Virus: The Insidious Legacy of Adolf Hitler) and publisher, whose works Bass said she has sold. Noting that his father lived close to the Strand, Senator Wyden commented: "I'm convinced that my dad probably went in and talked to Nancy's grandfather and made the case for why his books should be in the front of the store, because that's something my dad used to love to do."
While visiting Portland, Ore., last summer, in large part to see Powell's Books, Nancy Bass, owner with her father of the Strand, New York City, met Oregon Senator Ron Wyden (D., of course). They browsed at Powell's, walked in a park and apparently hit it off. Yesterday the Senator's office announced that the two will marry later this year in a "small, private" ceremony. It is her first marriage and his second. They plan to buy a home in the Portland area, but Bass emphasized to the Oregonian that she will continue running the Strand and travel regularly to Washington, D.C., and Portland.
Wyden's father, the late Peter Wyden, was an author (Stella: One Woman's True Tale of Evil, Betrayal, and Survival in Hitler's Germany; Day One: Before Hiroshima and After; The Hitler Virus: The Insidious Legacy of Adolf Hitler) and publisher, whose works Bass said she has sold. Noting that his father lived close to the Strand, Senator Wyden commented: "I'm convinced that my dad probably went in and talked to Nancy's grandfather and made the case for why his books should be in the front of the store, because that's something my dad used to love to do."