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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Claridge, Laura P.     Subjects     Knopf, Blanche W., 1894-1966.     Knopf, Alfred A., 1892-1984.     Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. -- History.     Publishers and publishing -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.     Women publishers -- United States -- Biography.     Editors -- United States -- Biography.     Women editors -- United States -- Biography.     Literature publishing -- United States -- History -- 20th century.     Authors and publishers -- United States -- History -- 20th century.     Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 20th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Claridge, Laura P.       by title:      The lady with the Bo...       by call number:      070.5092 K72c     Search the Web     Claridge, Laura P.     Knopf, Blanche W., 1894-1966.     Knopf, Alfred A., 1892-1984.     Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. -- History.     Publishers and publishing -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.     Women publishers -- United States -- Biography.     Editors -- United States -- Biography.     Women editors -- United States -- Biography.     Literature publishing -- United States -- History -- 20th century.     Authors and publishers -- United States -- History -- 20th century.     Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 20th century.       MARC Display

The lady with the Borzoi : Blanche Knopf, literary tastemaker extraordinaire / Laura Claridge by Claridge, Laura P. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016. Call #: 070.5092 K72c Subjects Knopf, Blanche W., 1894-1966.   Knopf, Alfred A., 1892-1984.   Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. -- History.   Publishers and publishing -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.   Women publishers -- United States -- Biography.   Editors -- United States -- Biography.   Women editors -- United States -- Biography.   Literature publishing -- United States -- History -- 20th century.   Authors and publishers -- United States -- History -- 20th century.   Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 20th century. ISBN:  9780374114251 (hc.) Edition:  First edition Description:  399 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-378) and index Contents:  Hungry for adventure -- The book lovers -- A third Knopf -- A new world outside her door -- Wild success -- Books of the twenties -- Harlem -- Mencken -- A well of loneliness -- Her own woman -- Lover -- Becoming free -- Money problems -- Harbingers of war -- Sigmund Freud, Thomas Mann and others -- A man of her own -- Going overseas -- The war's end -- More battles after all -- The second sex -- A wedding and other ribbons -- Indians and Norwegians -- A son's defection -- No more deals Summary:  "Described by Thomas Mann as "the soul of the firm," Blanche Knopf began her career when she founded the publishing firm Alfred A. Knopf with her husband in 1915. With her finger on the pulse of a rapidly changing culture, Blanche quickly became a driving force behind the firm. A conduit to the literature of Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance, Blanche also legitimized the hard-boiled detective fiction of writers such as Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and Raymond Chandler; signed and nurtured literary authors like Willa Cather, Elizabeth Bowen, and Muriel Spark; acquired momentous works of journalism by John Hersey and William Shirer; and introduced American readers to Albert Camus, André Gide, and Simone de Beauvoir, giving these French writers the benefit of her consummate editorial taste. As Knopf celebrates its centennial, Laura Claridge looks back at the firm's beginnings and the dynamic woman who helped to define American letters for the twentieth century. Claridge also captures Blanche's "witty, loyal, and amusing" personality, and her charged yet oddly loving relationship with her husband. The story of an ambitious, seductive, and impossibly hardworking woman who was determined not to be overlooked or easily categorized"--Provided by publisher. Genre:  Biographies. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Biography 070.5092 K72c Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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