Dolly Makoff, the founder of Dolly's Bookstore in Park City, Utah, died June 12 at the age of 93, the Salt Lake Tribune reported.
Makoff founded the bookstore in 1973. According to longtime bookstore employee Liza Simpson, the store initially sold both books and women's clothes "because you couldn't make enough money on one or the other to stay in business."
Dolly's Bookstore changed location several times, eventually finding its "forever home at 510 Main St," KPCW noted. In 1984, Makoff sold the store to Norm and Claire Weiss, a couple living in Los Angeles. They relocated to Park City and became good friends with Makoff.
Teri Orr, columnist and former editor of the Park Record, met Makoff after moving to the area in 1979. She remembered: "She took me right in and I said I was trying to be a writer and she said, 'you're already a writer. You don't try to be a writer. You're a writer.' And it was so lovely, her confidence. She was someone who enjoyed all kinds of books, which you would think would be obvious with a bookstore but it's not always. She was a reader of everything."