Oral history interview with Donald Angus Cameron, 1977
Other Titles
Reminiscences of Donald Angus Cameron, 1977
Abstract
Childhood and education, rural Indiana; DePauw University, 1930; editor; Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1935-38, Little, Brown & Co., 1938-51; Massachusetts Progressive Party, Henry Wallace campaign, 1948; break with Little, Brown; appearances before Senate committees, House Un-American Activities Committee, establishment of private publishing house in Adirondacks, 1953; Cameron and Kahn, later Cameron Associa tes, Liberty Book Club; Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., senior editor, 1959; trip to Russia; anecdotes on publishing history, publishing and literary figures including Alfred McIntyre, Alfred and Blanche Knopf, Thomas Mann, C.S. Forester, Ogden Nash, Norman Mailer
Publishers and publishing; Internal security--United States; Book industries and trade; Authors and publishers; Book clubs (Discussion groups); Cameron, Angus; Bobbs-Merrill Company; Progressive Party (U.S. : 1948); Little, Brown and Company; Alfred A. Knopf, Inc; Cameron Associates; United States. Congress
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
1977
Physical Description
640 pages
Note (Biographical)
Publisher; editor; interviewee b. 1908
Note (Funding)
Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Note
Service copy (44 kHz, 16 bit) and rendered version (96 kHz, 24 bit) of sound file derived from a digital preservation master digitized at 96 kHz, 24 bit
Biographical interview
Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010