Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Oral history interview with Roger W. Straus, Jr., 1979.
Creator: | Straus, Roger W. 1917-2004 | Project: | Individual interviews oral history collection. (see all project interviews) | Phys. Desc. : | Transcript 1,173 pages Sound recording 13 reels | Location: | Columbia Center for Oral History | Full CLIO record >> |
Biographical NotePublisher
Scope and ContentsFamily background; Hamilton College, 1935-1936; journalism, University of Missouri, 1940; WHITE PLAINS REPORTER; CURRENT HISTORY AND FORUM; Book Ideas, Inc.; Navy public relations, World War II; Guggenheim family experiences; establishment of Farrar and Straus, 1946; acquisition of Creative Age Press, 1950, other acquisitions; partnerships and contributions of Stanley Young, Sheila Cudahy; Robert Giroux becomes partner, 1955; consolidation as literary publishing house, purchase of Noonday Press, 1960. Impressions of many authors, editors, publishers, including Ernie Pyle, Theodor Reik, Evelyn and Alec Waugh, Charles Jackson, Colette, Malachi Martin, Marguerite Yourcenar, Nelson Algren, Mary McCarthy, T.S. Eliot, Bernard Malamud, Isaac Bashevis Singer
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