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3 days ago · Cain's decision to create original novels for paperback editions alarmed his long-time hardback publisher Alfred A. Knopf, according to biographer Roy Hoopes: Cain’s contract with Avon “upset [publisher] Alfred A. Knopf, who thought it was bad business to have original paperbacks of Cain’s while he was publishing him in hard-cover.
3 days ago · Since 1980, the Los Angeles Times has awarded a set of annual book prizes. The Los Angeles Times Book Prize currently has nine categories: biography, current interest, fiction, first fiction (the Art Seidenbaum Award added in 1991), history, mystery/thriller (category added in 2000), poetry, science and technology (category added in 1989), and ...
5 days ago · As it grew, it published the works of many successful and prestigious writers and gathered under its corporate roof many other firms, including Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (acquired 1960), Pantheon Books (1961), Ballantine Books (1973), Fawcett Books (1982), and the Crown Publishing Group (1988).
5 days ago · Alfred A. Knopf recently published his book, Conversations With the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Awards include eight awards from the Writers Guild of America, two George Foster Peabody Awards, and two Emmys.
5 days ago · William Shawn was the magazine’s editor in chief from 1952 to 1987, when he was succeeded by Robert Gottlieb, formerly a book editor and executive at Alfred A. Knopf publishers. In 1992 a Briton, Tina Brown , formerly editor of Vanity Fair , replaced Gottlieb.
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3 days ago · Consulting Editor, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York City, 1963–71; Executive Editor, 1943–59. Author of The Opera; Music as an Art; and many biographies of composers.
Apr 2, 2024 · 1. Jhumpa Lahiri, In Other Words, trans. Ann Goldstein (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016), 146.
