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William Keepers Maxwell, Jr.
William Keepers Maxwell, Jr. (August 16, 1908 – July 31, 2000) was an American novelist and editor.
Maxwell was born in Lincoln, Illinois, and attended the University of Illinois and Harvard University. He was best known as the fiction editor of The...
Library of America
The Library of America (LoA) is a nonprofit publisher of classic American literature.
Founded in 1979 with seed money from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Ford Foundation, the LoA has published nearly 200 volumes by a wide range of...
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Robert Giroux
Robert Giroux (April 8, 1914 – September 5, 2008) was an American book editor and publisher. While an editor with Harcourt, Brace & Co., he was hired away to work for Roger W. Straus, Jr. at Farrar & Straus, where he became a partner and, eventually...
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Donald Keene
Donald Lawrence Keene (born June 6, 1922 in New York City) is a Japanologist, scholar, teacher, writer, translator and interpreter of Japanese literature and culture. Keene is currently University Professor Emeritus and Shincho Professor Emeritus of...
James Laughlin
James Laughlin (October 30, 1914–November 12, 1997) was an American poet and literary book publisher who founded New Directions Publishers.
He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of Henry Hughart and Marjory Rea Laughlin. Laughlin's family...
Alfred Kazin
Alfred Kazin (June 5, 1915 – June 5, 1998) was an American writer and literary critic, many of whose writings depicted the immigrant experience in early twentieth century America.
Kazin is regarded as one of "The New York Intellectuals", and like...
Elizabeth Hardwick
Elizabeth Hardwick (July 27, 1916 – December 2, 2007) was an American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer.
Hardwick was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1939. She was awarded a Guggenheim...
Albert Murray
Albert L. Murray (born May 12, 1916 in Nokomis, Mobile County, Alabama) is an African-American literary and jazz critic, novelist and biographer.
He attended the Tuskegee Institute and received a Bachelors degree in 1939. He later earned a M.A. from...
Richard Howard
Richard Howard (born October 13, 1929) is a distinguished American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio and is a graduate of Columbia University, where he now teaches. He lives in New York City....
Studs Terkel
Louis "Studs" Terkel (16 May 1912 – 31 October 2008) was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985 for The Good War, and is best remembered for his oral histories of common...
Leslie Fiedler
Leslie Aaron Fiedler (March 8, 1917 – January 29, 2003) was a Jewish-American literary critic, known for his interest in mythography and his championing of genre fiction. His work also involves application of psychological theories to American...
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Pauline Kael
Pauline Kael (June 19, 1919 – September 3, 2001) was an American film critic who wrote for The New Yorker magazine from 1968 to 1991. Earlier in her career she was published by City Lights, McCall's and The New Republic.
Kael was known for her ...
Barney Rosset
Barney Rosset (born Barnet Lee Rosset, Jr., 1922), is the former owner of the publishing house Grove Press, and publisher and Editor-in-Chief of the magazine Evergreen Review. He led a successful legal battle to publish the uncensored version of D....
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Jason Epstein
Jason Wolkow Epstein (born January 26, 1928) is an American editor and publisher.
A 1949 graduate of Columbia College, Epstein was hired by Bennett Cerf at Random House, where he was the editorial director for forty years. He was responsible for the...
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born March 24, 1919) is an American poet, painter, liberal activist, and the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. Author of poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, and film narration, he is best...
John Leonard
John Leonard (February 25, 1939 – November 5, 2008) was an American literary, television, film, and cultural critic.
John Leonard grew up in Washington, D.C., Jackson Heights, Queens, and Long Beach, California, where he graduated from Woodrow...
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PEN American Center
PEN American Center (PEN), founded in 1922 and based in New York City, works to advance literature, to defend free expression, and to foster international literary fellowship. The Center has a membership of 3,300 writers, editors, and translators....
