Random House

TM , already the author of five novels, resigned from her job with Random House in order to become a full-time author (though she continued to take short-term appointments in the university world).

Meanwhile, after her divorce, TM came north and became an associate editor with a subsidiary of Random House publishers, then transferred to the parent company. With two small children and little social life, she held...

TM dedicated this book (which is based on the actual case of Margaret Garner) to the memory of the sixty million people who died on the slave-trade route (the middle passage) from Africa. Some...

It appears that Miss Miles received very little critical response. As Juliet Barker recently noted, it sank without a trace, perhaps because its belated publication (more than forty years after it was begun) meant that...

In his introduction to this text, Thornton Wilder wrote that the fundamental preoccupation of Miss Stein's life was not the work of art but the shaping of a theory of knowledge, a theory of time...

Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah has argued that of all the books Morrison dealt with at Random House , this one stands out as a strange and singular creation and one that vividly captures her notion of...

PM also wrote for the cinema. She adapted Galsworthy 's The Apple Tree as a screenplay for Warner Brothers , but it was decades before the film was made. In June 1972, at the request...

Soon after TM left her editor's position at Random House , she contributed to an anthology by Mari Evans (Black Women Writers (1950-1980): A Critical Evaluation) an essay entitled Rootedness: The Ancestor as Foundation.

Joyce was launching a lawsuit against Samuel Roth at this time for illegally pirating Ulysses in the United States. He stated in a deposition against Roth that the book was not his property but...

She had begun writing this on Mallorca, before the Spanish Civil War. It was the first of her books to be published in New York by her new US publisher, Random House , and...

AD 's Collected Stories were published by Random House India in 2008.

Again she wrote at Rungstedlund, first in English and then in Danish. She had her English manuscript conveyed in the diplomatic pouch of Sweden (a neutral country) to Random House in New York...

Tillie Lerner, later TO , was nineteen when she began drafting a novel, and writing it was an element in her life for thirty years. In 1934 Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer , founders of...

Toni Morrison in her capacity as an editor at Random House annoyed BH by wanting to classify these two as young people's books. Then in early 1979 Heinemann (the last publisher that could...

Its early working title was The Deep Blue Sea. She mentioned it as work in progress to Terence Rattigan , who thought it a very good title indeed. She later wrote that she liked...