Reminiscences of Evan Welling Thomas II, 1974.

Biographical Note

Editor, publisher

Scope and Contents

Childhood, education, Kent School, 1933; Princeton; ambulance driver, American Field Service, 1941-43; United States Navy, 1943-45, D-day; Harper and Brothers, 1945-68: trade department, editor-in-chief, executive vice president, discussion of books edited, including PROFILES IN COURAGE, DEATH OF A PRESIDENT; W.W. Norton, 1968- : review of boods edited, philosophy of publishing, book clubs, reviewers; discussion of publishers. Impressions of Cass Canfield, John Fischer, S. Michael Bessie, George Brockway, many authors

Subjects

• Authors.
• Book industries and trade.
• Editors--Interviews.
• Harper & Brothers.
• Harper & Row, Publishers.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Publishers and publishing--Interviews.
• Starr, Louis Morris, 1917-1980, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Thomas, Evan Welling--Interviews.
• United States--Intellectual life.
• W.W. Norton & Company.
• World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American.

Access Conditions

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