Charles Scribner, Jr.
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Scribner1s lively and informal memoir of a life spent among writers. He provides an intimate view of a family -- and a family business -- devoted to b
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ooks and to the characters who produced them: Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe, Edmund Wilson, P.D. James, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, James Jones, and Ernest Hemingway. In that era, business was based on close, sometimes stormy, ties between publisher and author. Scribner headed Scribners from 1952 to 1986, and was less interested in preserving traditions than in exploring new intellectual domains, such as through a new kind of reference book publishing, beginning with the monumental Dictionary of Scientific Biography.
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