Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Reminiscences of Simon Michael Bessie, 1976
Creator: | Bessie, Simon Michael | Project: | Individual interviews oral history collection. (see all project interviews) | Phys. Desc. : | transcript: 307 pages sound file : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit) | Location: | Columbia Center for Oral History | Full CLIO record >> |
Biographical NotePublisher
Scope and ContentsNew 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
SubjectsAccess ConditionsCopyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1984
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