How did you get into this?

Well, let's see, I started out working for a literary agent and I decided that

dead authors and artists were more interesting than the living so I switched

easier to deal with.

So they don't talk back.

No.

This is Justin Caldwell. He's a specialist in the Department of Books and Manuscripts at Sotheby's, the famous auction house.

We're at their New York location talking about an upcoming auction of items from the artist Georgia O'Keefe.

Yes, the auction will include paintings likely to go for millions of dollars,

but I'm here to see something else up for sale.

It's not as valuable as one of O'Keefe's paintings,

but to me at least, it's way more exciting.

It's her box of recipes.

You're not going to see this side of Georgia O'Keefe anywhere else. People who love Georgia O'Keefe are bound to love this. And she certainly

her fans are Legion and nothing like this is going to come up again. This is it.

Justin should know. Over the years a lot of famous people's papers have come across his desk. One of his favorites was an

early version of Tennessee Williams a streetcar named Desire. I say to him it must feel

sometimes like you're commuting with the dead and he says when I look through these

documents to me these people feel very much alive.

It's an amazing thing I would think to hold a piece of paper in your hands and know that this

famous person who did this incredible work has held that same paper written on that same paper.

Yes, that is a wonderful feeling.

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