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unusual facts about Knopf


Freddy the Magician

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


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.

Bernard Bailyn

Knopf, 1986; won the Pulitzer Prize in History, the Saloutos Award of the Immigration History Society, and distinguished book awards from the Society of Colonial Wars and the Society of the Cincinnati.

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

Caterina van Hemessen

Harris, Anne Sutherland and Linda Nochlin, Women Artists: 1550-1950, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Knopf, New York, 1976

Eleanora Knopf

Eleanora Frances Bliss Knopf (1883–1974) was a geologist who worked for the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and did research in the Appalachians during the first two decades of the twentieth century.

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.

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.

Gold and Fizdale

In the late 1970s, Arthur Gold began to have problems with his hands which made it difficult for him to perform, so the duo began to write biographical works, including "Misia: the Life of Misia Sert" (William Morrow 1981), "The Divine Sarah: a Biography of Sarah Bernhardt" (Knopf 1991).

I due Foscari

Toye, Francis (1931), Giuseppe Verdi: His Life and Works, New York: Knopf

I vespri siciliani

Toye, Francis (1962), Giuseppe Verdi: His Life and Works, New York: Knopf, 1931

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

Sonny Mehta, editor-in-chief and chairman of Bertelsmann AG's Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, says;

Jacques Monod

Chance and Necessity: An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology by Jacques Monod, New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1971, ISBN 0-394-46615-2

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.

Jim Knopf

Jim Knopf, nicknamed Jim Button ("Knopf" meaning "button" in German), is considered by many to be one of the "fathers" of shareware (so named by fellow software veteran Peter Norton).

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.

John Martin-Harvey

Busby, Brian: Character parts: who's really who in Canlit. Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2003

June Bingham Birge

Ms. Birge wrote several non-fiction books, including Courage to Change: An Introduction to the Life and Thought of Reinhold Niebuhr (Scribner, 1961); U Thant: The Search for Peace (Knopf, 1966); and, with Norman Tamarkin, The Pursuit of Health (Walker, 1985).

Killings and massacres during the 1948 Palestine war

Howard Sachar, A History of Israel - From the Rise of Zionism to our Time, Knopf, 2007.

Korczak Ziolkowski

Thomas Powers, The Killing of Crazy Horse, Alfred A.Knopf, 2010 ISBN 978-0-375-41446-6

La forza del destino

Toye, Francis (1931), Giuseppe Verdi: His Life and Works, New York: Knopf.

Louis Uchitelle

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

Maria Sophie of Bavaria

Brigitte Hamann: The Reluctant Empress: A Biography of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (Knopf: 1986) (ISBN 0-394-53717-3) (410pp.).

Michelle Huneven

Jamesland (Knopf 2003) is set in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, where three struggling souls: a Unitarian minister, a descendant of William James and an erstwhile chef, help each other learn to get by.

Mini Grey

WorldCat reports from participating libraries that her most widely held work is Traction Man is Here, about the household adventures of a boy's action figure; published in 2005 by Cape and in the U.S. by Random House (Alfred A. Knopf).

Mitchell A. Wilson

His first marriage was to Helen Weinberg Wilson which produced two daughters: Erica Silverman, a literary agent, and Victoria Wilson, editor and publisher at Alfred A. Knopf.

Philip Knopf

Knopf was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, and Sixtieth Congresses (March 4, 1903 – March 3, 1909).

Random House of Canada

One of the most-awarded books to be published by Knopf Canada is Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald, the Canadian author's first novel which was nominated for the Giller Prize in 1996, and went on to win the 1997 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for best first book, the 1997 Canadian Authors Association Literary Award, and the 1998 Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award for best fiction book of the year.

Robert Gellately

Gellately recently published a set of original documents by Leon Goldensohn dealing with the 1945-46 Nuremberg trials of war criminals in The Nuremberg Interviews: An American Psychiatrist's Conversations With The Defendants and Witnesses (Alfred A. Knopf, 2004).

Second Reconstruction

Eric Foner and Joshua Brown, Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction. Alfred A. Knopf: New York, 2005, 225-238.

The Brothers Ashkenazi

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

The Penderwicks

The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy is a children's novel by Jeanne Birdsall, published by Knopf in 2005.

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 Way To Cook

The book was published by Knopf, the firm that published almost all of Child's work from the beginning to the end of her career; the video series was produced with and marketed by the WGBH Educational Foundation in Boston but was shot at Child's home in Santa Barbara, California.

Tim Parks

Roberto Calasso, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, Knopf, 1993.

Waddy Thompson, Jr.

William Lee Miller (1996), Arguing about Slavery: The Great Battle in the United States Congress, New York: Knopf.

We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed

The CD release also contains a 32-page booklet which, in addition to liner notes and lyrics, also includes drawings and poems from Jason Lytle of Grandaddy, Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu, Zac Pennington of Parenthetical Girls, Brent Knopf of Menomena and Ramona Falls, and Paul Heaton of The Housemartins and The Beautiful South, among others.

Wickford, Rhode Island

Updike did, however, use Wickford as the model for the fictional village of Eastwick in his novel, The Witches of Eastwick (Knopf: 1984).


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