Reminiscences of Edward C. Aswell : oral history, 1956.

Biographical Note

Editor, publisher

Scope and Contents

Move from editor-in-chief of Harper and Brothers to head editor for McGraw-Hill's trade department, 1947; attempts to revitalize department; publishing philosophy and discussion of industry; importance of publishing fiction; negotiations for the Boswell papers, 1948-49: impressions of their owner, Colonel Isham, arranging sale to a university, legal and monetary complications, final sale to Yale University with McGraw-Hill receiving publishing rights

Subjects

• Aswell, Edward C. (Edward Campbell), 1900-1958.
• Book industries and trade.
• Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
• Editors--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Isham, Ralph Heyward, 1890-1955.
• McGraw-Hill, inc.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Phillips, Harlan B., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Publishers and publishing--Interviews.