Reminiscences of Simon Michael Bessie, 1976.

Biographical Note

Publisher

Scope and Contents

New York childhood, Harvard; NEWARK STAR-EAGLE; research at RKO-Radio pictures; LOOK magazine; Director, news division, Office of War Information, Algiers and London, 1943-45; United States Information Service, Paris, 1945-46; Harper & Brothers, 1946-59: editorial and personal experiences with authors John Cheever, Tallulah Bankhead, Alfred Kinsey, Alice B. Toklas, Grandma Moses, Kenneth Tynan, others; teaching publishing courses, Columbia, 1950s, and New School; founding, operating Atheneum Books, 1959-75: books and authors, finance, policy; return to Harper & Row, 1975; impressions of New York publishing; visit to Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat, 1976

Subjects

• Authors and publishers.
• Bessie, Simon Michael--Interviews.
• Book industries and trade.
• Harper & Row, Publishers.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Publishers and publishing--Interviews.
• Sadat, Anwar, 1918-1981.
• Sheaffer, Louis, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• United States. Office of War Information.
• United States Information Service.

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Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1984