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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 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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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...
Publishing Anita Desai
AD 's Collected Stories were published by Random House India in 2008.
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 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...
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
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 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.
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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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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.

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Texts

Stein, Gertrude. Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein. Editor Van Vechten, Carl, Random House, 1946.
Stein, Gertrude. The Geographical History of America. Random House, 1936.
Stein, Gertrude. Wars I Have Seen. Random House, 1945.
Templeton, Edith et al. “A Coffee House Acquaintance”. Three: 1971, Random House, 1971, pp. 157-08.
Stein, Gertrude. “A Stein Song”. Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein, edited by Carl Van Vechten, Random House, 1946, p. ix - xv.
Walker, Alice. Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth. Random House, 2003.
Walker, Alice. Anything We Love Can Be Saved. Random House, 1997.
Walker, Alice. By the Light of My Father’s Smile. Random House, 1998.
Walker, Alice. Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart. Random House, 2004.
Walker, Alice. The Way Forward is with a Broken Heart. Random House, 2000.
Weldon, Fay. Words of Advice. Random House, 1977.
Welty, Eudora. Losing Battles. Random House, 1970.
Welty, Eudora. One Time, One Place. Random House, 1971.
Welty, Eudora. The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews. Random House, 1978.
Welty, Eudora. The Optimist’s Daughter. Random House, 1972.
Wertenbaker, Lael. Death of a Man. Random House, 1957.