Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Reminiscences of Donald Angus Cameron, 1977.Biographical NotePublisher; editor; interviewee b. 1908
Scope and ContentsChildhood and education, rural Indiana; DePauw University, 1930; editor; Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1935-38, Little, Brown & Co., 1938-51; Massachusetts Progressive Party, Henry Wallace campaign, 1948; break with Little, Brown; appearances before Senate committees, House Un-American Activities Committee, establishment of private publishing house in Adirondacks, 1953; Cameron and Kahn, later Cameron Associates, Liberty Book Club; Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., senior editor, 1959; trip to Russia; anecdotes on publishing history, publishing and literary figures including Alfred McIntyre, Alfred and Blanche Knopf, Thomas Mann, C.S. Forester, Ogden Nash, Norman Mailer
SubjectsAccess ConditionsCopyright by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 2006
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