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Bennett Alfred Cerf (1898–1971) Publisher. Columbia College 1919. Generations of children may have been introduced to Bennett Cerf by his Book of Riddles, but he was more than just a compiler of humor: An extroverted punster and raconteur who published some of the twentieth century's most celebrated writers, Cerf was a celebrity in his own ...
16. Juni 2018 · How Bennett Cerf got James Joyce’s Ulysses, the ultimate banned book, into the US The story of how Ulysses was finally published in the US is full of twists, turns, and surprises. Dermot McEvoy ...
Highlights of Edward R. Murrow's visit with publisher Bennett Cerf and his wife, columnist Phyllis Cerf (cousin of Ginger Rogers) in this 1958 edition of "Pe...
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Bennett Cerf was born in 1898 in Manhattan and graduated from Columbia University with a degree in journalism. In 1925 he acquired the Modern Library with Donald Klopfer, providing the foundation for their next publishing venture, Random House. A major figure of American publishing for more than four decades, Bennett Cerf died in 1971.
544 Manchester Road. Westminster, MD 21157. In 2011, the Board of County Commissioners designated an area at Bennett Cerf Park as a location for a public dog park with the understanding that the community would raise the necessary funds for park development and the park would operate in a self-sustaining manner with revenue covering all expenses.
― Bennett Cerf, At Random: The Reminiscences of Bennett Cerf. 7 likes. Like “When people are decent, things work out for everybody,” my father instructs us. “That’s been my theory all through life. If you’re making money, let the other fellow ...
1. Jan. 2001 · So recounts Bennett Cerf in this wonderfully amusing memoir of the making of a great publishing house. An incomparable raconteur, possessed of an irrepressible wit and an abiding love of books and authors, Cerf brilliantly evokes the heady days of Random House’s first decades. Part of the vanguard of young New York publishers who ...
