Reminiscences of Alfred A. Knopf : oral history, 1961.

Biographical Note

Publisher

Scope and Contents

Early life in New York, N.Y.; Columbia College; years with Doubleday, Page & Co. and Mitchell Kennerley; founding of own firm, 1915; notable early publications; Anthony Comstock and other book censors; H. L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan, and the AMERICAN MERCURY; book design; growth of the firm; vignettes of Charles A. Beard, Willa Cather, Clarence Day, Joseph Hergesheimer, Thomas Mann, Katherine Mansfield, and others

Subjects

• Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
• Book design.
• Book industries and trade.
• Censorship.
• Doubleday, Page & Company.
• Interviews.
• Knopf, Alfred A., 1892-1984.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Periodicals--Publishing.
• Publishers and publishing--Interviews.
• Starr, Louis Morris, 1917-1980, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr