Name
Seaver, Edwin, 1900-1987 (Interviewee)
Sheaffer, Louis (Interviewer)
Title
Oral history interview with Edwin Seaver, 1976
Other Titles
Reminiscences of Edwin Seaver, 1976
Abstract
Childhood and education; HARVARD MONTHLY; publicity work New York, N.Y., early 1920s; book reviews for NEW REPUBLIC and NATION; American Civil Liberties Union publicity work; THE COMPANY, 1930; Woodstock; editorial work: columns, Book-of-the-Month Club, Braziller; effects of cold war on literature; McCarthy Committee hearing; promotion department work for Little, Brown, 1949-59
Collection Name
Individual interviews oral history collection
Subjects
Editors; Authors; Publicity; Internal security--United States; Authors and publishers; Periodicals--Publishing; United States Politics and government 1953-1961; United States Intellectual life; Seaver, Edwin, 1900-1987; American Civil Liberties Union; Book-of-the-Month Club; Little, Brown and Company
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
1976
Physical Description
98 pages
Note (Biographical)
Writer, editor; interviewee b.1900
Note (Funding)
Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Note
Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010
Interviewed by Louis Sheaffer
Language
English
Library Location
Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content
Catalog Record
7144730
Also In
Oral History Archives at Columbia
Time-Based Media
Time-Based Media
Persistent URL
https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-y6v9-df41
Related URLs
Available digital content for this interview.