Random House

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Textual Production Maya Angelou
The events that led up to this book were the devastating murder of Martin Luther King and the success of MA 's tv series Black, Blues, Black. Then an editor at Random House suggested...
Publishing Maya Angelou
She found it hard to write this volume, to reconcile her desire to write something uplifting with such painful material as the assassinations of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King , race riots, and the...
Textual Production Maya Angelou
In 1994 Angelou's publisher, Random House , issued The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Publishing W. H. Auden
WHA published with Random House in New York a book of criticism entitled The Enchafèd Flood; or, the Romantic Iconography of the Sea; it appeared from Faber in London the following year.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Publishing W. H. Auden
WHA again published a critical book, The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays, with Random House in New York the year before it appeared from Faber in London.
Spears, Monroe K. The Poetry of W.H. Auden. The Disenchanted Island. Oxford University Press.
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British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Occupation Sylvia Beach
Joyce was launching a lawsuit against Samuel Roth at this time for illegally pirating Ulysses in the United States. He stated in a deposition against Roth that the book was not his property but...
Publishing Simone de Beauvoir
This translation remained standard for a long time: later re-issues include one from Vintage in 1989 with an introduction by Deirdre Bair , and one from David Campbell in 1993 with an introduction by Margaret Crosland
Publishing Elizabeth Bishop
EB began submitting the manuscript of a first collection of poems in 1939, only to have it summarily rejected in turn by Random House , Viking , and Simon and Schuster . Harcourt Brace offered...
Textual Production Nancy Cunard
The authors demanded are the white people to be the sole beneficiaries [of the war]? The pamphlet was published by W. H. Allen and sold at ninepence.
Chisholm, Anne. Nancy Cunard. Knopf.
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Publishing Anita Desai
AD 's Collected Stories were published by Random House India in 2008.
Publishing Isak Dinesen
Again she wrote at Rungstedlund, first in English and then in Danish. She had her English manuscript conveyed in the diplomatic pouch of Sweden (a neutral country) to Random House in New York...
Textual Production Helen Dunmore
HD published a novella entitled The Greatcoat, to launch Random House 's new Hammer imprint, which is designed to specialise in horror or the ghost story.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Moss, Sarah. “Haunting, not scary”. Guardian Weekly, p. 42.
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Textual Features Mavis Gallant
MG was working on a biography of Alfred Dreyfus when she developed the idea for Linnet Muir. The biography, which she abandoned and burned after decades of work, had been commissioned by Random House after...
Textual Production H. D.
In 1929 Random House of New York printed 475 copies of HD's single-sheet, four-page poem, Red Roses for Bronze—which was also the title of her collection (nearly 150 pages) published in London by Chatto and Windus
Publishing Bessie Head
Toni Morrison in her capacity as an editor at Random House annoyed BH by wanting to classify these two as young people's books.
Eilersen, Gillian Stead. Bessie Head. Wits University Press.
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Then in early 1979 Heinemann (the last publisher that could...

Timeline

1887: Nina Kennard published another biography...

Women writers item

1887

Nina Kennard published another biography of a famous actress, this time Mrs. Siddons, for W. H. Allen 's Eminent Women Series.

1993: Following the Net Book Agreement, Random...

Writing climate item

1993

Following the Net Book Agreement, Random House became the first publisher in Britain to install an automated packing line in warehousing at Tiptree in Essex. Though it was not a success, this did not...

1999: Gail Rebuck became head executive of Random...

Writing climate item

1999

Gail Rebuck became head executive of Random House , one of the largest publishers of English language books.

August 2002: Random House published War Torn: Stories...

Writing climate item

August 2002

Random House published War Torn: Stories of War from the Women Reporters Who Covered Vietnam.

Early November 2012: A merger was proposed between the publishers...

Writing climate item

Early November 2012

A merger was proposed between the publishers Penguin and Random House , that would create a mega-company with worldwide revenues of 4.1 billion dollars US.
Sabbagh, Dan. “Amazon fears underlie books merger”. Guardian Weekly, p. 17.

Texts

Angelou, Maya. A Song Flung Up to Heaven. Random House, 2002.
Angelou, Maya. All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes. Random House, 1986.
Angelou, Maya. And Still I Rise. Random House, 1978.
Angelou, Maya. Gather Together in My Name. Random House, 1974.
Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Random House, 1969.
Angelou, Maya. Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ’fore I Diiie. Random House, 1971.
Angelou, Maya. Letter to My Daughter. Random House, 2008.
Angelou, Maya. Mom & Me & Mom. Random House, 2013.
Angelou, Maya. Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well. Random House, 1975.
Angelou, Maya. Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas. Random House, 1976.
Angelou, Maya. The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou. Random House, 2004.
Angelou, Maya. The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou. Random House, 1994.
Angelou, Maya. The Heart of a Woman. Random House, 1981.
Annan, Noel. Leslie Stephen: The Godless Victorian. Random House, 1984.
Asbell, Bernard. The Pill: A Biography of the Drug that Changed the World. Random House, 1995.
Auden, W. H. About the House. Random House, 1965.
Auden, W. H. Collected Longer Poems. Random House, 1965.
Auden, W. H. For the Time Being. Random House.
Auden, W. H. The Age of Anxiety. Random House, 1947.
Auden, W. H. The Dyer’s Hand and Other Essays. Random House, 1962.
Baker, Nicholson. Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper. Random House, 2001.
Blackman, Malorie. Chasing the Stars. Random House, 2016.
Blackman, Malorie. Knife Edge. Random House, 2004.
Blackman, Malorie. Noughts and Crosses. Random House, 2001.
Brookner, Anita. A Closed Eye. Random House, 1991.