Reminiscences of Marshall Ayres Best : oral history, 1976.

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Reminiscences of Marshall Ayres Best : oral history, 1976.

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Family background, education; founding of Viking Press, 1925; ULYSSES incident; impressions of Viking authors; Literary Guild, Book-of-the-Month Club; Viking PORTABLE LIBRARY; juvenile book publishing; wartime publishing; Armed Services Editions; American vs. English editing; work with Ben W. Huebsch, Thomas Guinzburg.

Miscellaneous papers relating to oral history.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Huebsch was vice president and chief editor at Viking Press in New York City. Viking became the publisher of Franz Werfel's works in English translation around 1935. Griesser was at Viking Press and wrote on Huebsch's behalf. Medinz was in the copyright dept. at Viking. McClure, Allen and Bradette all wrote letters to Viking Press concerning Werfel's novel The Song of Bernadette: McClure wrote a fan letter with a question that Huebsch forwarded to Werfel; Allen was requesting permission for use ...

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Best, Marshall Ayres, 1901-1982.

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