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The Lady with the Borzoi - Blanche Knopf, Literary Tastemaker Extraordinaire (Paperback)
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The Lady with the Borzoi - Blanche Knopf, Literary Tastemaker Extraordinaire (Paperback)
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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 culture, Blanche
quickly became a driving force behind the firm. A conduit to the
literature of Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance, Blanche
also legitimized the hard- boiled detective fiction of writers such
as Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and Raymond Chandler; signed
and nurtured literary authors like Willa Cather, Elizabeth Bowen,
and Muriel Spark; acquired momentous works of journalism by John
Hersey and William Shirer; and introduced American readers to
Albert Camus, Andre Gide, and Simone de Beauvoir, giving these
French writers the benefit of her consummate editorial taste. As
Knopf celebrates its centennial, Laura Claridge looks back at the
firm's beginnings and the dynamic woman who helped to define
American letters for the twentieth century. Drawing on a vast cache
of papers, Claridge also captures Blanche's "witty, loyal, and
amusing" personality, and her charged yet oddly loving relationship
with her husband. An intimate and often surprising biography, The
Lady with the Borzoi is the story of an ambitious, seductive, and
impossibly hardworking woman who was determined not to be
overlooked or easily categorised.
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