Scribners tells the inside story of five generations--over 150
years--at the legendary publishing house of Charles Scribner's
Sons, beginning with its founding in an unused chapel in downtown
New York through its golden era on Fifth Avenue above the famous
landmark bookstore down to the present-day. The author, the fifth
of the Charleses to work at that house of celebrated authors,
provides here an inside view--"between the covers" of illustrious
and notorious books--of the family members, editors, and authors of
this colorful literary history. Among the writers who illuminate
this story we find in the early years Robert Louis Stevenson,
Rudyard Kipling, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Teddy Roosevelt,
Winston Churchill, John Galsworthy and the artists Charles Dana
Gibson, N. C. Wyeth, and Maxfield Parrish, who illustrated
Scribner's Magazine as well as Scribner books. Then with the
arrival of "editor of genius" Max Perkins, the story takes off into
the heights of twentieth-century fiction with Scott Fitzgerald,
Thomas Wolfe, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Marcia Davenport, Alan
Paton, James Jones and--above all--Ernest Hemingway, that most
loyal and enduring author whose works were published by four
generations of Scribners. Famous children's classics The Wind in
the Willows, Peter Pan, and The Yearling also take their place of
honor in the firm's contribution to new generations of readers.
This engaging personal account of family history--both in and out
of the office--includes the most colorful controversies: from
Mussolini and Trotsky to Lindbergh and C. P. Snow--as well as
behind-the-scenes adventures of the author's father as he navigated
the seas with industry storms and publishing corsairs before
finding a safe harbor at Macmillan and finally, after the demise of
tycoon Robert Maxwell, Simon & Schuster. The author, an art
historian, found himself for thirty years in the company of writers
by "an accident of birth." But it proved an adventure beyond his
reckoning, here told with the candor and informality of a family
gathering, as well as with humor and affection for his father, P.
D. James, Louis Auchincloss, Andrew Greeley, and other authors with
whom he worked personally. As Scott Fitzgerald wrote, "If it wasn't
life, it was magnificent."
General
Imprint: |
The Lyons Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
November 2023 |
Authors: |
Charles Scribner III
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Dimensions: |
216 x 140mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
224 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4930-7997-1 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-4930-7997-2 |
Barcode: |
9781493079971 |
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