| Title: |
Reminiscences of Bennett Alfred Cerf
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| RLIN number: |
NXCP87-A60
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
Columbia University. Oral History Research Office
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| Collection: |
Individual Interview List Oral History Project
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| Description: |
Childhood and education in New York City; Columbia College; SPECTATOR, JESTER; journalism; Wall Street; Boni & Liveright; purchase of Modern Library; partnership with Donald Klopfer; travels and meetings with European authors; marriage to Sylvia Sidney; trip to Russia; building up Random House; contacts with authors, editors, other publishers; marriage to Phyllis Fraser; World War II publishing; TRY AND STOP ME and later books; magazine columns, radio programs, lecture tours; paperbacks, reprints, Bantam books, "What's My Line?"; role of an editor in a publishing house; dictionary and its promotion; purchase of other publishing houses; Singer, Knopf; stock issue, going public, 1959; purchase by Radio Corporation of America, 1965; educational developments, teaching machines; juvenile lists; spurt of growth in all publishing after World War II; purchase of Pantheon; foreign contacts; Peabody Awards Committee; director of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; Miss America pageant; Famous Writers School; many anecdotes about well known personalities in literary and entertainment fields.
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| Extent: |
Transcript: 1,029 leaves, Tape: 16 reels
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| Restrictions: |
Access: Written permission required from Mrs. Robert F. Wagner. Permission required to cite, quote, and reproduce. Contact repository for information.
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1968 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Cerf, Bennett Alfred, 1898-1971
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1898
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| Speaker occupation: |
Publisher
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| Age at speaking: |
70
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| Document date: |
1968
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| Interviewer: |
Hawkins, Robbin
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| Locations discussed: |
North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
American literature--20th century; Authors; Book industries and trade; Consolidation and merger of corporations; North America; Popular culture--United States; Publishers and publishing; United States
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| Topics discussed - Other terms: |
Cerf, Bennett Alfred, 1898-1971; Klopfer, Donald; Random House; Sidney, Sylvia
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0018377-13820
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