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.
“Bowker’s Global Books in Print”. globalbooksinprint.com.
but she later cancelled the contract, saying that she found it more interesting to write fiction.
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...
Reception
Dodie Smith
When the first volume appeared, Michael Kennedy
commented in his review in the Daily Telegraph that it was a book ready-made for a Woman's Hour serial (and that is meant as a compliment)
Kennedy, Michael. “Review of Dodie Smith, <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Look Back with Love</span>”;. Daily Telegraph.
(11 July 1974)
Publishing
Tillie Olsen
Tillie Lerner, later TO
, was nineteen when she began drafting a novel, and writing it was an element in her life for thirty years. In 1934 Bennett Cerf
and Donald Klopfer
, founders of...
Publishing
Laura Riding
She had begun writing this on Mallorca, before the Spanish Civil War. It was the first of her books to be published in New York by her new US publisher, Random House
, and...
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.
212
Then in early 1979 Heinemann
(the last publisher that could...
Publishing
Elizabeth Jane Howard
Its early working title was The Deep Blue Sea. She mentioned it as work in progress to Terence Rattigan
, who thought it a very good title indeed. She later wrote that she liked...
Publishing
Kathleen Jamie
KJ
published with Random House
of Toronto her book The Golden Peak: Travels in Northern Pakistan.
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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.
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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.
260
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
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...
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
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Texts
Brookner, Anita. Falling Slowly. Random House, 1988.
Brookner, Anita. Incidents in the Rue Laugier. Random House, 1996.
Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls. Random House, 1997.
Gide, André. If It Die. Translator Bussy, Dorothy, Random House, 1935.
Byrne, Paula. Perdita: The Literary, Theatrical, Scandalous Life of Mary Robinson. Random House, 2006.
Carson, Anne. Plainwater. Random House, 1995.
Dinesen, Isak. Ehrengard. Random House, 1962.
Dinesen, Isak. The Angelic Avengers. Random House, 1946.
Ellmann, Richard, editor. The Critic as Artist: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde. Random House, 1969.
Gallant, Mavis. The Pegnitz Junction. Random House, 1973.
Geniesse, Jane Fletcher. Passionate Nomad. Random House, 1999.
Jamie, Kathleen. The Golden Peak. Random House, 1990.
MacMillan, Margaret. Paris 1919. Random House, 2003.
McCarthy, Mary. The Oasis. Random House, 1949.
Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House, 2001.
Schapiro, Leonard Bertram. Turgenev, His Life and Times. Random House, 1978.
Sherry, Norman. The Life of Graham Greene: Volume I. Random House, 2004.
Sherry, Norman. The Life of Graham Greene: Volume II. Random House, 2004.
Shields, Carol. The Orange Fish. Random House, 1989.
Stead, Christina. Miss Herbert (the Suburban Wife). Random House, 1976.
Stein, Gertrude. Brewsie and Willie. Random House, 1946.
Stein, Gertrude. Everybody’s Autobiography. Random House, 1937.
Stein, Gertrude et al. Four Saints in Three Acts. Random House, 1934.
Stein, Gertrude. Ida. Random House, 1941.
Stein, Gertrude. Portraits and Prayers. Random House, 1934.