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Document Details
| Title: | Reminiscences of Roger W. Straus, Jr. |
| RLIN number: | NXCP88-A21 |
| Document type: | Oral history |
| Accessibility: | Free Only |
| Repository: | Columbia University. Oral History Research Office |
| Collection: | Individual Interview List Oral History Project |
| Description: | Family background; Hamilton College, 1935-1936; journalism, University of Missouri, 1940; WHITE PLAINS REPORTER; CURRENT HISTORY AND FORUM; Book Ideas, Inc.; Navy public relations, World War II; Guggenheim family experiences; establishment of Farrar and Straus, 1946; acquisition of Creative Age Press, 1950, other acquisitions; partnerships and contributions of Stanley Young, Sheila Cudahy; Robert Giroux becomes partner, 1955; consolidation as literary publishing house, purchase of Noonday Press, 1960. Impressions of many authors, editors, publishers, including Ernie Pyle, Theodor Reik, Evelyn and Alec Waugh, Charles Jackson, Colette, Malachi Martin, Marguerite Yourcenar, Nelson Algren, Mary McCarthy, T.S. Eliot, Bernard Malamud, Isaac Bashevis Singer. |
| Extent: | Transcript: 1173 leaves, Tape: 13 reels |
| Restrictions: | Access: Written permission required from interviewee. Permission required to cite, quote, and reproduce. Contact repository for information. |
| Original Language: | English |
| Time span: | Not indicated ... to 1979 (Year of interview) |
| Speaker: | Straus, Roger W., 1917- |
| Speaker gender: | Male |
| Speaker date of birth: | 1917 |
| Speaker occupation: | Publisher |
| Age at speaking: | 62 |
| Document date: | 1979 |
| Interviewer: | Sheaffer, Louis |
| Locations discussed: | North America; United States |
| Topics discussed - ASP terms: | Authors; Book industries and trade; Intellectual life--United States; North America; Oral history; Publishers and publishing; United States |
| Topics discussed - Other terms: | Straus, Roger W., 1917- |
| ASP release: | 2005-06 |
| Document code: | OHI0019746-15189 |