Maxine Allem Schoyer (d. 5 August 1990). Proprietor of Schoyer's Books in Pittsburgh with her husband William T. Schoyer, until the Squirrel Hill neighborhood shop was sold to Marc Selvaggio and Donnis DeCamp ca. 1 January 1986.
In a profile of Maxine Schoyer in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette of 12 June 1985 prior to her retirement, she characterizes the business of selling old books as “upsy-downsy. . . . We're not Macy's and we're not Kaufmann's but we still have a nice yearly gross.” She also remarks in that article that “Children today are too much into computers. They should throw the damn things away and get a back to reading.”
See her obituary in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 8 August 1990 (page 32) and her AP obituary as it appeared in the Pottsville [PA] Republican on 7 August 1990 (page 3).
