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Oct 1, 2015 · Alfred A. Knopf was born on Central Park West in 1892, the son of a successful adman. He was a bookish child and at 16 entered Columbia, where he proved a mostly indifferent student (and even flunked economics, a bad omen for a future businessman).
May 18, 2018 · Alfred A. Knopf (1892-1984), American publisher, used his commitment to fine books, his marketing skill, and his personality to create a firm of extraordinary distinction. Alfred A. Knopf was born in New York City on September 12, 1892, to Samuel and Ida Jaffee Knopf.
May 15, 2015 · 1915: Alfred A. Knopf founds his own publishing company at the age of 22, with a $5,000 advance from his father: 1920: T.S. Eliot’s Poems, a collection of 12 poems, including “The Hippopotamus ...
Articles from the original Borzoi Reader. Founded in 1915 by Alfred A. Knopf and his wife Blanche W. Knopf, the house of Knopf has long been one of America's foremost book publishers—known for both the quality of its authors and for the high level of its book design and production.
Aug 12, 1984 · Alfred A. Knopf, one of America's outstanding publishers, whose imprint bore his own name and whose books symbolized quality for more than half a century, died of congestive heart failure...
Feb 16, 2009 · Alfred A. Knopf Jr., who left the noted publishing house run by his parents to become one of the founders of Atheneum Publishers in 1959, died on Saturday. He was 90, the last of the...
Alfred A Knopf was considered to be one of the great literary publishers of the 20th century. But papers newly unearthed in his company's archive reveal a spectacular capacity for scorning...
