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The lady with the Borzoi : Blanche Knopf, literary tastemaker extraordinaire

text The lady with the Borzoi : Blanche Knopf, literary tastemaker extraordinaire

Summary
"Left off her company's fifth anniversary tribute but described by Thomas Mann as "the soul of the firm," Blanche Knopf began her career when she founded Alfred A. Knopf with her husband in 1915. With her finger on the pulse of a rapidly changing ... Read more
Contents
Hungry for adventure -- The book lovers -- A third Knopf -- A new world outside her door -- Wild success -- Books of the twenties -- Harlem -- Mencken -- A well of loneliness -- Her own woman -- Lover -- Becoming free -- Money problems -- Harbinge... Read more
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399 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 921 KNOPF, BLANCHE CLA in Adult Non-fiction Available

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