The house of Knopf, 1915-1960 [electronic resource] : a documentary volume / edited by Cathy Henderson and Richard W. Oram.

Contributor Henderson, Cathy, 1955- editor.

Imprint:Detroit, Mich. : Gale, c2010.

Description1 online resource (xlii, 589 p.) : ill.

Note:"A Bruccoli Clark Layman book."

Note:Description based on print version record.

Note:Introduction -- Chronology -- The House of Knopf: historical overview -- Selected Alfred A. Knopf authors -- Elizabeth Bowen -- James M. Cain -- Albert Camus -- Willa Cather -- Raymond Chandler -- Raold Dahl -- Kahlil Gibran -- Dashiell Hammett -- John Hersey -- Langston Hughes -- Thomas Mann -- H.L. Mencken -- Kenneth Millar (Ross Macdonald) -- Yukio Mishima (Hiraoka Kimitake) -- Carl Van Vechten -- American historians -- American poets.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

Note:Provides illustrations, facsimiles, and biographical and critical source materials on the firm of Alfred A. Knopf from its founding in 1915 to its purchase by Random House in 1960. Explores the house's relationships with important Knopf authors. Most of the documents derive from the Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Archive housed at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin.

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