Random House

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).

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

KJ published with Random House of Toronto her book The Golden Peak: Travels in Northern Pakistan.

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...

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.

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...

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.

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...