Rani Elwy loves her basement, where wall-to-wall bookshelves are filled with children’s picture books, young adult fiction, and very few biographies. Rani prefers to read fiction, because she says, “my life is non-fiction”, but the biography of Lee Krasner by Gail Levine, the 2011 Arnold Lecture speaker, is a rare exception. Rani, a research psychologist, finds that writing manuscripts is more easily accomplished while enjoying the Wellesley scenery outside the windows of the main library than it is done from her office.