doi:10.7916/d8-8hav-yh59Reminiscences of Simon Michael Bessie, 1976Bessie, Simon Michaeloral historiesmixed materialPublishers and publishingBook industries and tradeAuthors and publishersBessie, Simon MichaelSadat, Anwar, 1918-1981United States Information ServiceHarper & Row, PublishersUnited States. Office of War InformationNew York childhood, Harvard; NEWARK STAR-EAGLE; research at RKO-Radio pictures; LOOK magazine; Director, news division, Office of War Information, Algiers and London, 1943-45; United States Information Service, Paris, 1945-46; Harper & Brothers, 1946-59: editorial and personal experiences with authors John Cheever, Tallulah Bankhead, Alfred Kinsey, Alice B. Toklas, Grandma Moses, Kenneth Tynan, others; teaching publishing courses, Columbia, 1950s, and New School; founding, operating Atheneum Books, 1959-75: books and authors, finance, policy; return to Harper & Row, 1975; impressions of New York publishing; visit to Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat, 1976