Oral history interview with Donald Angus Cameron, 1977

Biographical Note

Publisher; editor; interviewee b. 1908

Scope and Contents

Childhood 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

Subjects

• Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
• Authors and publishers.
• Bobbs-Merrill Company.
• Book clubs (Discussion groups)
• Book industries and trade.
• Cameron, Angus--Interviews.
• Cameron Associates.
• Internal security--United States.
• Interviews.
• Little, Brown and Company.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Progressive Party (U.S. : 1948)
• Publishers and publishing--Interviews.
• Sheaffer, Louis, interviewer.
• United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities.

Access Conditions

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