whoi was bennet cerf?

He was one of the foremost PUBLISHERS of the 20th century. He also did many other things but his gift to mankind was his stewardship of Random House Publishing Company. He presented the books of prestigious authors from Truman Capote to Dr. Suess.

Bennett Alfred Cerf (1898–1971)

Publisher

An extroverted punster and raconteur who published some of the twentieth century's most celebrated writers,Cerf started Random House in 1927, two years after he and Donald Klopfer acquired the Modern Library imprint that became the foundation for the new publishing venture. "We just said we were going to publish a few books on the side at random," Cerf later said—hence the name Random House. Under his leadership, Random House published James Joyce's Ulysses in 1934, defying a ban, and created Beginner Books, which published Dr. Seuss and others. The publisher's roster of adult writers included novelists Truman Capote, John O'Hara, Irwin Shaw, and James Michener, playwrights Eugene O'Neill and Moss Hart, and journalist Edgar Snow. When Cerf bought his friend Alfred A. Knopf's publishing house in 1960, the deal was one of the industry's first, and most successful, mergers. In addition to his many illustrious authors, Cerf employed Jason Epstein (Columbia College 1949), founder of The New York Review of Books, as his editorial director. He continued as president of Random House until 1965.Generations of children have been introduced to Bennett Cerf by his Book of Riddles, but he was more than just a compiler of humor, Cerf was a celebrity in his own right, editing anthologies, writing a syndicated newspaper column, and serving as a panelist on the television show What's My Line?

Bennett Cerf

Prominent author Bennett Cerf (1898-1971), was an author of limericks and humor in the first half of the 20th century.

As founder of Modern Library, Inc. and Random House in the 1920s, he was responsible for publishing many works on American and English plays and literature. He was the author of a number of humor, riddle and pun books.

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