A “Most Successful Person”: Little Free Library Founder Dies At 62

Shortly before he died, Todd Bol, founder of the Little Free Library movement that spread across the globe, told the Star Tribune  he was the "most successful person I know, because I stimulate 54 million books to be read and neighbors to talk to each other."

Bol, 62, who died of pancreatic cancer on October 18 in Wisconsin, built the very first Little Free Library – a doll house-size case to hold books – in 2009 in honor of his mother, a former teacher who had recently died. Since then the little houses on poles holding books to be shared via an honor system have shown up in neighborhoods around the country and even around the world.