1. Blanche Wolf Knopf was an American book publisher who was the president of Alfred A Knopf, Inc.
18 Facts About Blanche Knopf
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Blanche Knopf traveled the world seeking new authors and was especially influential in the publication of European and Latin American literature in the United States.
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Blanche Knopf told others that Julius had been a jeweler in Vienna, but he had been a day laborer in Bavaria.
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Blanche Knopf attended the Gardner School for Girls on the Upper East Side of New York City.
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Blanche Knopf learned the mechanics of printing and publishing and went on to become a highly influential editor.
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Blanche Knopf is credited with designing the Borzoi, a Russian wolfhound imprint marking Blanche Knopf titles.
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Blanche Knopf became the company's vice president when it was incorporated in 1918.
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Blanche Knopf often clashed with Alfred's father, Sam Knopf, who was named Treasurer when the firm was incorporated.
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Knopf became president of Alfred A Knopf, Inc in 1957 when Alfred Knopf became the chairman.
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Blanche Knopf frequently traveled to Europe and Latin America to meet foreign authors and publishers.
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Blanche Knopf is credited with recruiting Sigmund Freud, Albert Camus, Andre Gide, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Ilya Ehrenburg, Mikhail Sholokhov, Thomas Mann, and Gilberto Freyre, striking deals to publish translations of their works in the United States.
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In 1936, Blanche Knopf returned from Europe concerned about the plight of German publishers and authors driven out of Germany because of Nazi persecution.
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Blanche Knopf is credited for advancing the careers of numerous authors, serving as an adviser while agreeing to publish the work of several influential authors.
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Blanche Knopf helped Carl Van Vechten launch writers of the Harlem Renaissance, among whom were Langston Hughes and Nella Larson.
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Blanche Knopf started to lose her vision in her later years and, by the 1960s, was virtually blind.
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Blanche Knopf died unexpectedly on June 4,1966, in her sleep at her apartment in New York.
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Blanche Knopf was honored by Brazil with the Order of the Southern Cross.
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Blanche Knopf is the subject of a 2016 biography by Laura Claridge entitled The Lady with the Borzoi: Blanche Knopf, Literary Tastemaker Extraordinaire.