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Alfred A. Knopf

Index Alfred A. Knopf

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. is a New York publishing house that was founded by Alfred A. Knopf Sr. and Blanche Knopf in 1915. [1]

222 relations: A Bell for Adano (novel), A Distant Mirror, A Summons to Memphis, A Thousand Acres, A Visit from the Goon Squad, Alan Brinkley, Alan Taylor (historian), Albert Camus, Alfred A. Knopf Jr., Alfred A. Knopf Sr., Alice Munro, All the Pretty Horses (novel), André Gide, Andrew Vachss, Annalyn Swan, Anne O'Hare McCormick, Anne Rice, Anne Tyler, Anti-intellectualism in American Life, Ashbel Green (editor), Atheneum Books, Émile Augier, Barbara W. Tuchman, Beatrice Warde, Been in the Storm So Long, Beloved (novel), Bernard Bailyn, Bertelsmann, Bill Clinton, Birdy (novel), Blanche Knopf, Borzoi, Breathing Lessons, Bret Easton Ellis, Bruce Rogers (typographer), Bruno Bettelheim, Candler Building (New York City), Carl Bernstein, Carl Emil Schorske, Carleton Mabee, Carol Brown Janeway, Chapbook, China Men, Chip Kidd, Christopher Paolini, Colophon (publishing), Common Ground (book), Conrad Richter, Cormac McCarthy, Czesław Miłosz, ..., Daniel Okrent, David Herbert, De Kooning: An American Master, Doris Lessing, Dorothy Richardson, Doubleday (publisher), Elinor Wylie, Elizabeth Frank, Empire Falls, Everyman's Library, Exploration and Empire, Ezra Pound, Fin-de-siècle Vienna, Founding Brothers, Frank O'Hara, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Franz Wright, Gabriel García Márquez, Gary Fisketjon, Günter Grass, God: A Biography, Good Neighbor policy, Gordon S. Wood, Green Mansions, Guy de Maupassant, Halldór Laxness, Harold Strauss, Harry Ransom Center, Haruki Murakami, Heinrich Böll, Homo sapiens (novel), Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Imre Kertész, Ivo Andrić, J R, J. Anthony Lukas, Jack London, Jack Miles, Jack N. Rakove, James Ellroy, James Watson, Jane Smiley, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jennifer Egan, Joan Didion, Johannes V. Jensen, John Banville, John Casey (novelist), John Cheever, John Hersey, John Keegan, John Updike, Joint venture, Jonathan Weiner, Joseph Ellis, Joseph Hergesheimer, Judith Jones, Julia Child, Katharine Graham, Kazuo Ishiguro, Knut Hamsun, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Lauren Bacall, Lawrence H. Gipson, Lee H. Hamilton, Leon Litwack, Leonora Speyer, Linnie Marsh Wolfe, Logo, Louise Bogan, Mark Strand, Martin Gardner, Maxine Hong Kingston, McGraw-Hill Education, Michael Kammen, Mikhail Sholokhov, Mona Van Duyn, Nadine Gordimer, National Book Award, Near Changes, Nella Larsen, New York (state), New York City, Nikolai Gogol, Nobel Prize, One of Ours, Orhan Pamuk, Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution, Pearson plc, Penguin Group, Penguin Random House, People of Paradox, Personal History, Peter Gay, Peter Taylor (writer), Peter the Great: His Life and World, Philip Levine (poet), Pulitzer Prize, Purchase, New York, Rabbit at Rest, Rabbit Is Rich, Random House, Richard Ellmann, Richard Ford, Richard Hofstadter, Richard Russo, Robert Caro, Robert Gottlieb, Robert Hillyer, Robert K. Massie, Robert V. Bruce, Rudolph Ruzicka, Russel B. Nye, Samuel Flagg Bemis, Sandwich board, Sharon Olds, Sherwin B. Nuland, Shirley Ann Grau, Sigrid Undset, Sonny Mehta, Spartina, Stag's Leap Wine Cellars, Stanisław Przybyszewski, Steven Heller (design writer), Susan Swan, T. Harry Williams, T. J. Stiles, Taras Bulba, The Age of Reform, The American Mercury, The Atlantic, The Auroras of Autumn, The Beak of the Finch, The Centaur, The Diary of a Young Girl, The Keepers of the House, The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846–1876, The Moviegoer, The Power Broker, The Radicalism of the American Revolution, The Road, The Stories of John Cheever, The Town (Richter novel), The Waters of Kronos, The Year of Magical Thinking, The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Theodore Rosengarten, Thomas Mann, Toni Morrison, Typeface, Typography, United States, University of Texas at Austin, V. S. Naipaul, Verner von Heidenstam, Victoria Wilson, Vintage Books, Voyagers to the West, W. D. Snodgrass, Walker Percy, Wallace Stevens, Władysław Reymont, What Work Is, Willa Cather, William Addison Dwiggins, William Cooper's Town, William Gaddis, William H. Goetzmann, William Henry Hudson, William Wharton (author), Yasunari Kawabata, Youth and the Bright Medusa. Expand index (172 more) »

A Bell for Adano (novel)

A Bell for Adano is a 1944 novel by John Hersey, the winner of the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel.

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A Distant Mirror

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century is a narrative history book by the American historian Barbara Tuchman, first published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1978.

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A Summons to Memphis

A Summons to Memphis is a 1986 novel by Peter Taylor which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1987.

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A Thousand Acres

A Thousand Acres is a 1991 novel by American author Jane Smiley.

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A Visit from the Goon Squad

A Visit from the Goon Squad is a 2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning work of fiction by American author Jennifer Egan.

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Alan Brinkley

Alan Brinkley (born June 2, 1949) is an American political historian who has taught for over 20 years at Columbia University.

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Alan Taylor (historian)

Alan Shaw Taylor (born June 17, 1955) is an American historian specializing in early United States history.

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Albert Camus

Albert Camus (7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, and journalist.

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Alfred A. Knopf Jr.

Alfred Abraham Knopf Jr. (June 17, 1918 – February 14, 2009) was one of the founders of Atheneum Publishers in 1959.

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Alfred A. Knopf Sr.

Alfred Abraham Knopf Sr. (September 12, 1892August 11, 1984) was an American publisher of the 20th century, and founder of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc..

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Alice Munro

Alice Ann Munro (née Laidlaw; born 10 July 1931) is a Canadian short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013.

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All the Pretty Horses (novel)

All the Pretty Horses is a novel by American author Cormac McCarthy published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1992.

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André Gide

André Paul Guillaume Gide (22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Andrew Vachss

Andrew Henry Vachss (born October 19, 1942) is an American crime fiction author, child protection consultant, and attorney exclusively representing children and youths.

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Annalyn Swan

Annalyn Swan (born ca. 1951 in Biloxi, Mississippi) is an American writer and biographer who has written extensively about the arts.

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Anne O'Hare McCormick

Anne O'Hare McCormick (16 May 1880 – 29 May 1954) was a foreign news correspondent for the New York Times, in an era where the field was almost exclusively "a man's world".

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Anne Rice

Anne Rice (born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien; October 4, 1941) is an American author of gothic fiction, Christian literature, and erotica.

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Anne Tyler

Anne Tyler (born October 25, 1941) is an American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic.

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Anti-intellectualism in American Life

Anti-intellectualism in American Life is a book by Richard Hofstadter published in 1963 that won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.

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Ashbel Green (editor)

Ashbel Green (1928–2013) was a senior editor and vice president at Alfred A. Knopf.

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Atheneum Books

Atheneum Books was a New York City publishing house established in 1959 by Alfred A. Knopf, Jr., Simon Michael Bessie and Hiram Haydn.

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Émile Augier

Guillaume Victor Émile Augier (17 September 1820 – 25 October 1889) was a French dramatist.

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Barbara W. Tuchman

Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (January 30, 1912 – February 6, 1989) was an American historian and author.

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Beatrice Warde

Beatrice Warde (September 20, 1900 – September 16, 1969, née Beatrice Becker) was a twentieth century writer and scholar of typography.

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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.

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Beloved (novel)

Beloved is a 1987 novel by the American writer Toni Morrison.

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Bernard Bailyn

Bernard Bailyn (born September 10, 1922) is an American historian, author, and academic specializing in U.S. Colonial and Revolutionary-era History.

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Bertelsmann

Bertelsmann is a German multinational corporation based in Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Bill Clinton

William Jefferson Clinton (born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001.

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Birdy (novel)

Birdy is the debut novel of William Wharton, who was more than 50 years old when it was published.

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Blanche Knopf

Blanche Wolf Knopf (July 30, 1894 – June 4, 1966) was the president of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. and wife of publisher Alfred Knopf, with whom she established the firm in 1915.

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Borzoi

The borzoi (literally "fast"), also called the Russian wolfhound (Ру́сская псовая борзая), is a breed of domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris).

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Breathing Lessons

Breathing Lessons is a 1989 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by American author Anne Tyler.

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Bret Easton Ellis

Bret Easton Ellis (born March 7, 1964) is an American author, screenwriter, and short story writer.

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Bruce Rogers (typographer)

Bruce Rogers (May 14, 1870 – May 21, 1957) was an American typographer and type designer, acclaimed by some as among the greatest book designers of the twentieth century.

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Bruno Bettelheim

Bruno Bettelheim (August 28, 1903 – March 13, 1990) was the director of the Orthogenic School for Disturbed Children at the University of Chicago from 1944 to 1973.

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Candler Building (New York City)

The Candler Building is a historic skyscraper located in Times Square, Manhattan, New York, New York.

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Carl Bernstein

Carl Bernstein (born February 14, 1944) is an American investigative journalist and author.

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Carl Emil Schorske

Carl Emil Schorske (March 15, 1915 – September 13, 2015), known professionally as Charles E. Schorske, was an American cultural historian and professor emeritus at Princeton University.

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Carleton Mabee

Carleton Mabee (December 24, 1914 – December 18, 2014) was an American writer who won the 1944 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F B. Morse.

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Carol Brown Janeway

Carol Janet Brown Janeway (February 1, 1944 – August 3, 2015) was an editor and literary translator into English.

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Chapbook

A chapbook is a type of popular literature printed in early modern Europe.

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China Men

China Men is a 1980 collection of "stories" by Maxine Hong Kingston, some true and some fictional.

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Chip Kidd

Charles "Chip" Kidd (born 1964) is an American graphic designer, best known for his book covers.

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Christopher Paolini

Christopher James Paolini (born November 17, 1983 in Los Angeles, California) is an American author.

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Colophon (publishing)

In publishing, a colophon is a brief statement containing information about the publication of a book such as the place of publication, the publisher, and the date of publication.

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Common Ground (book)

Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families is a nonfiction book by J. Anthony Lukas, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1985, that examines race relations in Boston, Massachusetts through the prism of desegregation busing.

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Conrad Richter

Conrad Michael Richter (October 13, 1890 – October 30, 1968) was an American novelist whose lyrical work is concerned largely with life on the American frontier in various periods.

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Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy (born Charles McCarthy; July 20, 1933) is an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter.

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Czesław Miłosz

Czesław Miłosz (30 June 1911 – 14 August 2004) was a Polish poet, prose writer, translator and diplomat.

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Daniel Okrent

Daniel Okrent (born April 2, 1948) is an American writer and editor.

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David Herbert

The Honourable David Alexander Reginald Herbert (3 October 1908 – 3 April 1995) was a British socialite, memoirist and interior decorator.

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De Kooning: An American Master

de Kooning: An American Master is a biography of Dutch American painter Willem de Kooning, a prominent figure in the American movement of abstract expressionism in the thirties and forties.

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Doris Lessing

Doris May Lessing (22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013) was a British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer.

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Dorothy Richardson

Dorothy Miller Richardson (17 May 1873 – 17 June 1957) was a British author and journalist.

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Doubleday (publisher)

Doubleday is an American publishing company founded as Doubleday & McClure Company in 1897 that by 1947 was the largest in the United States.

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Elinor Wylie

Elinor Morton Wylie (September 7, 1885 – December 16, 1928) was an American poet and novelist popular in the 1920s and 1930s.

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Elizabeth Frank

Elizabeth Frank (born September 14, 1945, in Los Angeles) is an American writer and the Joseph E. Harry Professor of Modern Languages and Literature at Bard College, who won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for Louise Bogan: A Portrait (1985).

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Empire Falls

Empire Falls is a 2001 novel written by Richard Russo.

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Everyman's Library

Everyman's Library is a series of reprinted classic literature currently published in hardback by Random House.

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Exploration and Empire

Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West is a book by William H. Goetzmann.

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Ezra Pound

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, as well as a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement.

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Fin-de-siècle Vienna

Fin-de-siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture is a 1979 transdisciplinary non-fiction book written by cultural historian Carl E. Schorske and published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Described by its publisher as a "magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political and social disintegration so much of modern art and thought was born," the book won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.

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Founding Brothers

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation is a Pulitzer Prize-winning book written by Joseph Ellis, a professor of history at Mount Holyoke College, which won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for History.

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Frank O'Hara

Francis Russell "Frank" O'Hara (March 27, 1926 – July 25, 1966) was an American writer, poet and art critic.

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Frans Eemil Sillanpää

Frans Eemil Sillanpää (16 September 1888 – 3 June 1964) was one of the most famous Finnish writers and in 1939 became the first Finnish writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature "for his deep understanding of his country's peasantry and the exquisite art with which he has portrayed their way of life and their relationship with Nature".

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Franz Wright

Franz Wright (March 18, 1953 – May 14, 2015) was an American poet.

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Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez (6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America.

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Gary Fisketjon

Gary Fisketjon is a current (as of 2018) Editor and Vice-President of Knopf Publishing.

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Günter Grass

Günter Wilhelm Grass (16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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God: A Biography

God: A Biography is a nonfiction book by Jack Miles.

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Good Neighbor policy

The Good Neighbor policy was the foreign policy of the administration of United States President Franklin Roosevelt towards Latin America.

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Gordon S. Wood

Gordon Stewart Wood (born November 27, 1933) is Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University, and the recipient of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1992).

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Green Mansions

Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest (1904) is an exotic romance by William Henry Hudson about a traveller to the Guyana jungle of southeastern Venezuela and his encounter with a forest dwelling girl named Rima.

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Guy de Maupassant

Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a French writer, remembered as a master of the short story form, and as a representative of the naturalist school of writers, who depicted human lives and destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms.

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Halldór Laxness

Halldór Kiljan Laxness (born Halldór Guðjónsson; 23 April 1902 – 8 February 1998) was an Icelandic writer.

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Harold Strauss

Harold Strauss (1907–1975) was editor-in-chief of Alfred A. Knopf Inc. from 1942 until 1966.

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Harry Ransom Center

The Harry Ransom Center is an archive, library and museum at the University of Texas at Austin, USA, specializing in the collection of literary and cultural artifacts from the United States and Europe for the purpose of advancing the study of the arts and humanities.

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Haruki Murakami

is a Japanese writer.

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Heinrich Böll

Heinrich Theodor Böll (21 December 1917 – 16 July 1985) was one of Germany's foremost post-World War II writers.

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Homo sapiens (novel)

Homo Sapiens (1895–96; tr. 1915) is a trilogy by Polish author Stanisław Przybyszewski.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) is an educational and trade publisher in the United States.

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Imre Kertész

Imre Kertész (9 November 192931 March 2016) was a Hungarian author and recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history".

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Ivo Andrić

Ivo Andrić (Иво Андрић,; born Ivan Andrić; 9 October 1892 – 13 March 1975) was a Yugoslav novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961.

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J R

J R is a novel by William Gaddis published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1975.

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J. Anthony Lukas

Jay Anthony Lukas, or J. Anthony Lucas (April 25, 1933 – June 5, 1997), was an American journalist and author, probably best known for his 1985 book Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families.

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Jack London

John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney; January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist.

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Jack Miles

John R. "Jack" Miles (born July 30, 1942) is an American author.

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Jack N. Rakove

Jack Norman Rakove (born June 4, 1947) is an American historian, author and professor at Stanford University.

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James Ellroy

Lee Earle "James" Ellroy (born March 4, 1948) is an American crime fiction writer and essayist.

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James Watson

James Dewey Watson (born April 6, 1928) is an American molecular biologist, geneticist and zoologist, best known as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA in 1953 with Francis Crick and Rosalind Franklin.

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Jane Smiley

Jane Smiley (born September 26, 1949) is an American novelist.

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Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, political activist, biographer, and literary critic.

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Jennifer Egan

Jennifer Egan (born September 7, 1962) is an American novelist and short story writer who lives in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn with her husband and two sons.

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Joan Didion

Joan Didion (born December 5, 1934) is an American journalist and writer of novels, screenplays, and autobiographical works.

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Johannes V. Jensen

Johannes Vilhelm Jensen (commonly known as Johannes V. Jensen; 20 January 1873 – 25 November 1950) was a Danish author, often considered the first great Danish writer of the 20th century.

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John Banville

William John Banville (born 8 December 1945), who sometimes writes as Benjamin Black, is an Irish novelist, adapter of dramas, and screenwriter.

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John Casey (novelist)

John D. Casey (born 1939 in Worcester, Massachusetts) is an American novelist and translator.

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John Cheever

John William Cheever (May 27, 1912 – June 18, 1982) was an American novelist and short story writer.

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John Hersey

John Richard Hersey (June 17, 1914 – March 24, 1993) was an American writer and journalist.

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John Keegan

Sir John Desmond Patrick Keegan (15 May 1934 – 2 August 2012) was an English military historian, lecturer, writer and journalist.

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John Updike

John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic.

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Joint venture

A joint venture (JV) is a business entity created by two or more parties, generally characterized by shared ownership, shared returns and risks, and shared governance.

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Jonathan Weiner

Jonathan Weiner (born 1953 in New York City) is a writer of non-fiction books on his biology observations, in particular evolution in the Galápagos Islands, genetics, and the environment.

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Joseph Ellis

Joseph John Ellis (born July 18, 1943) is an American historian whose work focuses on the lives and times of the founders of the United States of America.

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Joseph Hergesheimer

Joseph Hergesheimer (February 15, 1880 – April 25, 1954) was a prominent American writer of the early 20th century known for his naturalistic novels of decadent life amongst the very wealthy.

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Judith Jones

Judith Jones (née Bailey; March 10, 1924 – August 2, 2017) was an American writer and editor, best known for having rescued The Diary of Anne Frank from the reject pile.

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Julia Child

Julia Carolyn Child (née McWilliams; August 15, 1912 – August 12, 2004) was an American chef, author and television personality.

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Katharine Graham

Katharine Meyer "Kay" Graham (née Meyer; June 16, 1917 – July 17, 2001) was an American publisher and the first female publisher of a major American newspaper.

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Kazuo Ishiguro

Sir Kazuo Ishiguro (born 8 November 1954) is a Nobel Prize-winning British novelist, screenwriter, and short-story writer.

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Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun (August 4, 1859 – February 19, 1952) was a major Norwegian writer, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920.

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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (born July 11, 1938) is an American historian of early America and the history of women and a professor at Harvard University.

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Lauren Bacall

Lauren Bacall (born Betty Joan Perske; September 16, 1924 – August 12, 2014) was an American actress known for her distinctive voice and sultry looks.

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Sigrid Undset

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The Auroras of Autumn

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The Beak of the Finch

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Yasunari Kawabata

was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to receive the award.

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