Bennett Cerf

At Random

The Reminiscences of Bennett Cerf

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I've got the name for our publishing operation. We just said we were going to publish a few books on the side at random. Let's call it Random House. So recounts Bennett Cerf in his wonderfully amusing account of the making of a great publishing house.Cerf -- an incomparable raconteur, possessed of an irrepressible wit and an abiding love of books and authors -- brilliantly evokes the heady days of Random House's infancy, tracing its beginnings as an offshoot of the Modern Library to its growth as a publisher of Pulitzer Prize -- winning and bestselling authors. Whether he's describing the fortuitous events that brought a particular author to… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Cerf, Christopher

ISBN: 978-0-375-75976-5
EAN: 9780375759765
Produktnummer: 9613761
Verlag: Random House N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
Seitenangabe: 320 S.

Über den Autor

Bennett Cerf was born in 1898 in Manhattan and graduated from Columbia University with a degree in journalism. In 1925 he acquired the Modern Library with Donald Klopfer, providing the foundation for their next publishing venture, Random House. A major figure of American publishing for more than four decades, Bennett Cerf died in 1971.Christopher Cerf is an author, editor, and Emmy- and Grammy-winning songwriter and television producer. A longtime contributor to Sesame Street, and cofounder and creative producer of the PBS literacy-education series Between the Lines, Christopher Cerf is a former contributing editor of National Lampoon and a former senior editor at Random House.