Madeleine Bettina Stern (July 1, 1912 – August 18, 2007), born in New York, New York, was an independent scholar and rare book dealer.
She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1943 to write a biography of Alcott, which was eventually published in 1950.
[1] The pair lived and worked in Rostenberg's house in the Bronx.
[2] In 1960, Stern helped found the New York Antiquarian Book Fair.
[3] Stern and Leona Rostenberg became widely known in the late 1990s while in their late eighties when their memoir on the rare book trade, Old Books, Rare Friends, became a best seller.