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...
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.
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Textual Production
Toni Morrison
In her capacity as editor at Random House
, TM
edited and published an anthology entitled The Black Book, an iconoclastic, archival look at black life in the USA, whose cover features a...
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.
Ghansah, Rachel Kaadzi. “The Radical Vision of Toni Morrison”. New York Times Magazine.
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
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...
“Bowker’s Global Books in Print”. globalbooksinprint.com.
but she later cancelled the contract, saying that she found it more interesting to write fiction.
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...
Textual Production
Vernon Lee
VL
published The Countess of Albany, a biography of Louise von Stolberg
, as one of W. H. Allen
's Eminent Women series (later the Famous Women series).
Mannocchi, Phyllis. “’Vernon Lee’: A Reintroduction and Primary Bibliography”. English Literature in Transition, Vol.
26
, No. 4, pp. 231-67.
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Textual Production
James Joyce
In 1933 Bennett Cerf
and Random House
agreed to publish an American edition of Ulysses. A trial was required.
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. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
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
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...
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
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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.