- George Braziller
George Braziller (b. 1916?) is an American book publisher and the founder of George Braziller, Inc.,cite web |url= http://www.princeton.edu/rbsc/fellowships/2003-04/sommerville.html |title= 2003 Visiting Fellow and Library Research Grant |author= Henry S. Sommerville |work= Friends of the
Princeton University Library |quote= The new publishing house followed the model of the book club, bringing out works of popular physical and social science, literature, and art, often reviving out-of-print books that found a grateful audience. Braziller soon added new fiction by foreign authors, especially French "new novelists," and debut novels by American authors.…
“By the close of the 1960s, Braziller's importance as a publisher of literary and artistic books rivaled that of larger publishers and marked the firm as a leader in these fields. Princeton's manuscript holdings for George Braziller, Inc., fill fifty-seven boxes and cover a span of more than thirty years in the life of the company… ] a firm known for its literary and artistic books and its publication of foreign authors.George Braziller became interested in publishing while he was working as a shipping clerk,cite web |url= http://www.nysun.com/article/28421 |title= At 90, George Braziller Takes Time To Reflect |author= Gary Shapiro |work=
The New York Sun [http://www.nysun.com/archive_knickerbocker.php Knickerbocker] column |date=2 March 2006 |quote= George Braziller - founder of the eponymous publishing house known for art books and exceptional foreign authors - greeted guests at the Salmagundi Art Club last week. The occasion was his 90th birthday party, organized by his family and attended by authors and friends eager to pay tribute. That loyalty, as a fine arts photographer and former editor of theBook of the Month Club Gloria Norris explained, lies in his total commitment to each and every book published under his auspices… ] his first job,cite web |url= http://www.thebrooklynrail.org/books/feb05/braziller.html |title= George Braziller in conversation with Phong Bui |author= |work=The Brooklyn Rail Interview|date= February 2005 |quote= ] during theGreat Depression . In the 1940s, he founded the Book Find Club, which was smaller than theBook of the Month Club but exceedingly successful, “with a reputation for seriousness of purpose.” After the end ofWorld War II , he sold the Book Find Club toTime–Life Publishing and put half of the proceeds into the publishing firm he founded in the mid-1950s.When Braziller travelled to Europe in the late 1960s, he was in
Paris during the events of May 1968 which led to the collapse of the de Gaulle government.Henri Alleg 's autobiography "La Question," which he brought back from that trip and published inEnglish language translation, was his firm's first big success in the United States.The Braziller publishing firm, which is also known for its loyalty to its authors,cite web |url= http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE3D7153AF930A25751C1A96F948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print |title= The Gift of Words |author= Edwin McDowell |work=
The New York Times |date=13 December 1989 |quote= ] is presently located at 171 Madison Avenue inManhattan ,New York City .References
External links
* [http://www.georgebraziller.com/ George Braziller Inc. website]
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