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
Gertrude Stein
Bennett Cerf
wrote in 27 March 1945 to tell her about the astounding success of the book: sales were over the 10,000 markand [t]he $2000.00 that [she] receiv[ed] from Collier's for use of parts...
Publishing
Rupert Brooke
1914 and Other Poems became a bestseller.
Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press, 1996.
110
There were two New York editions of The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke in 1915: one from Dodd, Mead
and one from John Lane
. The pagination...
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
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
Tillie Olsen
Her biographer, Panthea Reid
, calls TOzanier than most literary geniuses: She was undisciplined, high strung, full of excuses, and passionate.
Reid, Panthea. Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles. Rutgers University Press, 2010.
99
She was at least intermittently serious about her literary aims: in early...
Textual Production
James Joyce
In 1933 Bennett Cerf
and Random House
agreed to publish an American edition of Ulysses. A trial was required.