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unusual facts about Roger Williams Straus, Jr.



Roger Williams Straus, Jr.

His dedication to the publishing business earned him several Nobel Prize-winning authors, including Isaac Bashevis Singer, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Brodsky, Nadine Gordimer, Czesław Miłosz and T. S. Eliot, and Pulitzer Prize authors such as Robert Lowell, John McPhee, Philip Roth, and Bernard Malamud.

The FSG brand became so renown that author Scott Turow turned down a $350,000 advance for his first novel, "Presumed Innocent," from a rival publisher so that he could work with Straus, who offered him $200,000.


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