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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Claridge, Laura P. (1952-....)
Titre(s) : The lady with the Borzoi [Texte imprimé] : Blanche Knopf, literary tastemaker extraordinaire / Laura Claridge
Édition : First edition
Publication : New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016
Description matérielle : 399 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Comprend : 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.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-378) and index
"Left off her company's fifth anniversary tribute but described by Thomas Mann as
"the soul of the firm," Blanche Knopf began her career when she founded 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.
Drawing on a vast cache of papers, Claridge also captures Blanche's "witty, loyal,
and amusing" personality, and her charged yet oddly loving relationship with her husband.
An intimate and often surprising biography, The Lady with the Borzoi is the story
of an ambitious, seductive, and impossibly hardworking woman who was determined not
to be overlooked or easily categorized"
Sujet(s) : Knopf, Blanche Wolf (1894-1966)
Knopf, Alfred A. (1892-1984)
Éditrices -- États-Unis
Édition -- New York (États-Unis ; État) -- New York (N.Y., États-Unis)
Livres et lecture -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. -- Histoire
Genre ou forme : Biographie
Indice(s) Dewey :
070.509 2 (23e éd.) = Édition - Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780374114251 (hardback). - ISBN 0374114250 (hardback). - ISBN 9780374709730
(erroné) (e-book)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb450942205
Notice n° :
FRBNF45094220
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