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unusual facts about Edwin H. Knopf


Ella van Heemstra

When she visit Los Angeles she was entertained by friends like George Cukor, Mrs. Mildred Knopf (wife of Edwin H. Knopf) and Veronique Peck.


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 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

Colpitts

Edwin H. Colpitts (1872–1949), communications pioneer best known for his invention of the Colpitts oscillator

Dicynodont

Colbert, E. H., (1969), Evolution of the Vertebrates, John Wiley & Sons Inc (2nd ed.)

Edwin H. May, Jr.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Eighty-sixth Congress in 1958.

May was the co-chairman of the inaugural Insurance City Open (now the Travelers Championship) at the Wethersfield Country Club.

Edwin H. McConkey

His contributions to taxonomy include classification of the Northern subspecies of Northern Mole Skink, Eumeces egregius similis.

Edwin H. Stoughton

Stoughton was an attorney in New York City after the war, practicing with his father and with his uncle, Edwin W. Stoughton.

Edwin H. Whitehead

Edwin H. "Ed" Whitehead (February 26, 1925 - May 20, 2007) was a lawyer in Cheyenne, Wyoming, a former Democratic member of the Wyoming House of Representatives, and an early supporter of John F. Kennedy for the American presidency in a state which three times supported Richard M. Nixon.

Whitehead was one of five children born to Douglas and Edith Whitehead in Burns, a small community in Laramie County near Cheyenne, the Wyoming state capital.

Edwin May

Edwin H. May, Jr. (1924–2002), U.S. Representative from Connecticut

Edwin Stoughton

Edwin H. Stoughton (1838-1868), American Civil War general and lawyer

Edwin Wilson

Edwin H. Wilson (1898–1993), American Unitarian and humanist leader

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.

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.

Freddy the Magician

The first edition was published in hardcover in 1947 by A.A. Knopf.

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.

Hewitt House

Edwin H. Hewitt House, Minneapolis, Minnesota, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Hennepin County, Minnesota

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.

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.

Nikola Tesla Museum

A series of selected letters, placed on both sides of the photograph, witnesses the highest acknowledgements expressed to Tesla by the greatest scientists of his time: Albert Einstein, William Crookes, Lord Kelvin, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, Robert A. Millikan, Lee de Forest, Edwin H. Armstrong, Arthur H. Compton, Arthur E. Kennelly, Popov and Pupin.

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.

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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