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Employer | Toni Morrison | TM
, already the author of five novels, resigned from her job with Random House
in order to become a full-time author (though she continued to take short-term appointments in the university world). Cooke, Rachel. “America is going backwards”. The Observer, p. 15. 15 |
Employer | Toni Morrison | Meanwhile, after her divorce, TM
came north and became an associate editor with a subsidiary of Random House
publishers, then transferred to the parent company. With two small children and little social life, she held... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Toni Morrison | TM
dedicated this book (which is based on the actual case of Margaret Garner) to the memory of the sixty million people who died on the slave-trade route (the middle passage) from Africa. Some... |
Literary responses | Gertrude Stein | In his introduction to this text, Thornton Wilder
wrote that the fundamental preoccupation of Miss Stein's life was not the work of art but the shaping of a theory of knowledge, a theory of time... |
Literary responses | Mary Taylor | It appears that Miss Miles received very little critical response. As Juliet Barker
recently noted, it sank without a trace, perhaps because its belated publication (more than forty years after it was begun) meant that... |
Literary responses | Toni Morrison | Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah
has argued that of all the books Morrison dealt with at Random House
, this one stands out as a strange and singular creation and one that vividly captures her notion of... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Toni Morrison | Soon after TM
left her editor's position at Random House
, she contributed to an anthology by Mari Evans
(Black Women Writers (1950-1980): A Critical Evaluation) an essay entitled Rootedness: The Ancestor as Foundation. OCLC WorldCat. Ghansah, Rachel Kaadzi. “The Radical Vision of Toni Morrison”. New York Times Magazine. |
Material Conditions of Writing | Penelope Mortimer | PM
also wrote for the cinema. She adapted Galsworthy
's The Apple Tree as a screenplay for Warner Brothers
, but it was decades before the film was made. In June 1972, at the request... |
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 | Kathleen Jamie | KJ
published with Random House
of Toronto her book The Golden Peak: Travels in Northern Pakistan. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. |
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... |
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. |
Publishing | Carson McCullers | She began this novel during the extremely fertile year of 1939, under the title The Bride and Her Brother. She finished it in summer 1945, and declined an offer from Random House
to publish... |
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, 1968. 260 British Library Catalogue. |
Publishing | Gertrude Stein | This publication was the result of a contract between Bennett Cerf
of Random House
and GS
for a future, second autobiography. Cerf promised to publish all of GS
's works at the rate of one... |