Kurt Wolff: A Portrait in Essays and Letters
by Kurt Wolff
edited by Michael Ermarth
translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider
University of Chicago Press, 1991
Cloth: 978-0-226-90551-8 | Paper: 978-0-226-10480-5
Library of Congress Classification Z315.W72K875 1991
Dewey Decimal Classification 70.5092
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Kurt Wolff (1887-1963) was a singular presence in the literary world of the twentieth century, a cultural force shaping modern literature itself and pioneering significant changes in publishing. During an intense, active career that spanned two continents and five decades, Wolff launched seven publishing houses and nurtured an extraordinary array of writers, among them Franz Kafka, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Boris Pasternak, Günter Grass, Robert Musil, Paul Valéry, Julian Green, Lampedusa, and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
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