A Publisher is Known by the Company He Keeps

Gênero : Documentário

Runtime : 0M

Director : Sidney J. Stiber, Jules Victor Schwerin

Sinopse

Alfred A. Knopf and his wife Blanche founded the publishing house bearing his name in 1915.* He claimed that he never published an unworthy book, and the Knopf catalog includes 17 winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature and 47 Pulitzer Prize winners. Knopf (1892-1984) maintained a close personal friendship with many of his authors, and in 1926 he bought a Bell & Howell 16mm camera and began to film them. These home movies form the heart of A Publisher is Known by the Company He Keeps, along with scenes of Knopf in 1960 at his home in Purchase, New York. With a warm and personal narration spoken by Mr. Knopf, we see footage and hear his comments about Knopf authors including Thomas Mann, Willa Cather, H. L. Mencken, Max Beerbohm, Sigrid Undset, Walter de la Mare, Rebecca West, Kahlil Gibraan, Eleanor Wylie, Emma Goldman and other literary notables of Knopf’s generation.

Atores

Alfred A. Knopf
Alfred A. Knopf
Himself

Tripulações

Sidney J. Stiber
Sidney J. Stiber
Director
Sidney J. Stiber
Sidney J. Stiber
Producer
Jules Victor Schwerin
Jules Victor Schwerin
Director
Louis deRochemont
Louis deRochemont
Producer