{"product_id":"the-lady-with-the-borzoi-blanche-knopf-literary-tastemaker-extraordinaire-paperback","title":"The Lady with the Borzoi: Blanche Knopf, Literary Tastemaker Extraordinaire - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLaura Claridge\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe untold story of Blanche Knopf, the singular woman who helped define American literature\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLeft off her company's fifth anniversary tribute but described by Thomas Mann as \"the soul of the firm,\" Blanche Knopf began her career when she founded Alfred A. Knopf with her husband in 1915. With her finger on the pulse of a rapidly changing culture, Blanche quickly became a driving force behind the firm. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A conduit to the literature of Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance, Blanche also legitimized the hard-boiled detective fiction of writers such as Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and Raymond Chandler; signed and nurtured literary authors like Willa Cather, Elizabeth Bowen, and Muriel Spark; acquired momentous works of journalism by John Hersey and William Shirer; and introduced American readers to Albert Camus, André Gide, and Simone de Beauvoir, giving these French writers the benefit of her consummate editorial taste. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As Knopf celebrates its centennial, Laura Claridge looks back at the firm's beginnings and the dynamic woman who helped to define American letters for the twentieth century. Drawing on a vast cache of papers, Claridge also captures Blanche's \"witty, loyal, and amusing\" personality, and her charged yet oddly loving relationship with her husband. An intimate and often surprising biography, \u003ci\u003eThe Lady with the Borzoi\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of an ambitious, seductive, and impossibly hardworking woman who was determined not to be overlooked or easily categorized.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLaura Claridge\u003c\/b\u003e's books include \u003ci\u003eTamara de Lempicka: A Life of Deco and Decadence\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eEmily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of America\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eNorman Rockwell: A Life\u003c\/i\u003e. A frequent contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Christian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e, and other publications, she lives in the Hudson Valley.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 430\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 21, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47467911774461,"sku":"9780374536763","price":38.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/aUU4NUxOOGZFajhPeGJTTXBYT3U5UT09.webp?v=1777281431","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/the-lady-with-the-borzoi-blanche-knopf-literary-tastemaker-extraordinaire-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}