Reminiscences of Cass Canfield, 1966.

Scope and Contents

Early youth, education, New York and abroad; Harvard; graduate study at Oxford, 1920; walked Burma Road, 1920; Harper & Bros. president from 1932; crossing on HINDENBURG, 1936; interview with Leon Trotsky, 1940; Board of Economic Welfare; Office of War Information, 1944; International Planned Parenthood Federation; history of Harper's and comprehensive discussion of publishing; anecdotes about many notable literary and political figures including Edith Wharton, Julian and Aldous Huxley, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Adlai Stevenson, Sumner Welles, and Jacqueline Kennedy

Subjects

• American literature--20th century.
• Authors and publishers.
• Book industries and trade.
• Canfield, Cass, 1897-1986--Interviews.
• Grossner, Isabel S., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Harper & Row, Publishers.
• International Planned Parenthood Federation.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Publishers and publishing--Interviews.
• Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940.
• United States. Office of War Information.

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Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1975