Blanche Knopf

SJ published her novel Three Kingdoms, dedicated to Blanche Knopf . It has clearly autobiographical overtones.

She acquired friends in New York, in several distinct circles, many of whom she came later to regard as self-seeking hangers-on. Having changed her US publisher to Knopf , she became friend of Alfred and...

In Ohio they met novelist Louis Bromfield , who was also hosting Blanche and Alfred Knopf . While in Dallas Jameson lunched at the Dallas News building and was seated opposite Dorothy Parker , as...

Like ET 's first book, this was praised by distinguished but not unanimous voices: Elizabeth Bowen found an exciting distinction about every page, and Rosamond Lehmann noted the stripped, piercing feminine wit and called ET

She was introduced to Alfred and Blanche Knopf by her publisher and friend Michael Sadleir . In her autobiography she comments, I wrote to every well-known author under the age of fifty. I had...

Blanche Knopf asked for fairly radical revisions in this novel: that it should concentrate more completely on the two very young lovers. ET replied, in terms of the utmost humility, that she could not revise...