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Alfred A. Tomatis

Tomatis' approach began as an effort to help professional singers in his native Nice based on his idea that errant hearing is the root cause of a variety of ailments.


Albert W. Hicks

There are several discrepancies between this account and that found in Herbert Asbury's classic crime history The Gangs of New York - an Informal History of the Underworld (1928, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.)

Alfred A. Sanelli

He was a member of the Honor Council and received the Order of Anthony Wayne.

Alfred A. Taylor

Taylor was born in the Happy Valley community of Carter County, Tennessee, the second son of Nathaniel Green Taylor, a congressman, Methodist minister, and poet, and Emaline Haynes Taylor, an accomplished pianist.

The commission negotiated the Medicine Lodge Treaty with the southern Plains Indians, bringing about their removal to reservations in Indian Territory.

Alfred Gilman

Alfred A. Gilman (1878–1966), American missionary and bishop in China

Alfred Hall

Alfred A. Hall (1848–1912), Vermont attorney, politician and judge

Alfred Knopf

Alfred A. Knopf or Knopf Publishing Group, subsidiary of Random House

Alfred A. Knopf, Sr. (1892–1984), founder of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., the publishing company

Aline Bernstein

Bernstein was a writer, with two books published by Knopf.

Been in the Storm So Long

Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery is a 1979 book by American historian Leon Litwack, published by Knopf.

Brian Biggs

Shredderman series, written by Wendelin Van Draanen—2004-2006 (Children's Novel) Knopf, ISBN 0-375-82351-4, ISBN 0-375-82352-2, ISBN 0-375-82353-0, ISBN 0-375-82354-9

Esmeralda Santiago

With Joie Davidow, Ms. Santiago is coeditor of the anthologies, Las Christmas: Favorite Latino Authors Share Their Holiday Memories and Las Mamis: Favorite Latino Authors Remember their Mothers both published by Knopf.

Florida Gators baseball

The stadium is named for Florida alumni Alfred A. McKethan and Carl E. Perry, and is located on the University of Florida's Gainesville campus.

For the Relief of Unbearable Urges

For the Relief of Unbearable Urges is a short story collection by Nathan Englander, first published by Knopf in 1999.

Geoffrey Ward

The Civil War: An Illustrated History, (1990), with Ric and Ken Burns; based upon PBS television series, Alfred A. Knopf

Gita Mehta

Although being the wife of Sonny Mehta, head of the Alfred A. Knopf publishing house, keeps her in the publishing limelight, she has emerged a writer in her own right.

Jill Lepore

Lepore's book New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan (Knopf, 2005) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History.

John Heilpern

On its publication in the US by Knopf in 2007, The New Yorker described it as “compelling”, The Wall Street Journal as “masterful”, and The Philadelphia Inquirer as “a model of what a literary biography ought to be.” The Wall Street Journal named it one its Ten Best Books of the Year.

Leland Stanford Mansion State Historic Park

Accurate restoration of the home and its rooms was aided by both an extensive study of the home in 1986 through the Historic American Buildings Survey, and through a large collection of photographs of the home taken in 1868 by Alfred A. Hart, and again in 1872 by Eadweard Muybridge.

Linnie Marsh Wolfe

She completed the work, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, published by A. A. Knopf in 1938, after which Alfred A. Knopf, Sr. asked her to write a biography of Muir.

Louis Uchitelle

In March 2006 Knopf published his book, The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences.

Mary Frances Berry

In 1999, Berry persuaded the Clinton administration to appoint her editor at Alfred A. Knopf, Victoria Wilson, to the commission.

Peithologian Society

Although Peithologian's alumni included such prominent names as Columbia president Nicholas Murray Butler (Class of 1882), Nobel laureate Hermann Muller (Class of 1910), and publisher Alfred A. Knopf (Class of 1912), both it and Philolexian suffered declining membership after the turn of the century.

Pequot War

Most modern historians such as Alfred A. Cave, a specialist in the ethnohistory of colonial America, do not debate questions of the outcome of the battle or its chronology.

Ruth D. Thorne

Her paternal Great-Grandfather was the highly recognized historical figure A.A. ThorneA. A. Thorne.

Ruth Suckow

Her first novel, Country People (1924), was followed by a remarkable number of novels published by Alfred A. Knopf.

Terror and Consent: the Wars for the Twenty-first Century

Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century is a work by Philip Bobbitt that calls for a reconceptualization of what he calls "the Wars on Terror." First published in 2008 by Alfred A. Knopf in the U.S. and by the Allen Lane imprint of Penguin in the U.K., Terror and Consent takes as its point of departure the perspectives Bobbitt developed in The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History.

The Brothers Ashkenazi

Written in Yiddish, it was first translated into English by Maurice Samuel in 1936 and published by Knopf.

The Thing Around Your Neck

The Thing Around Your Neck is a short story collection by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, it was first published in April 2009 by Fourth Estate in the UK and by Knopf in the US.

The Three Roads

Alfred A. Knopf, Jr., who functioned as an editing publisher, asked for revisions in what he considered a slow-paced novel.

Weldon Kees

In early 1941, Kees signed a provisional contract with Alfred A. Knopf for a novel, Fall Quarter, an academic black comedy about a young professor who battles the dreariness and banality of a staid Nebraskan college.

William Addison Dwiggins

His scathing attack on contemporary book designers in An Investigation into the Physical Properties of Books (1919) led to his working with the publisher Alfred A. Knopf.

William Rossa Cole

After military service in World War II, Cole took various jobs in the publishing industry, serving as publicity director at Alfred A. Knopf, publicity director and editor at Simon & Schuster, and publisher of William Cole Books at Viking Press.


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