John Berryman and Robert Giroux: A Publishing Friendship

by Patrick Samway and Patrick Samway S.J.

Book Overview

This engaging study provides new perspectives on the lives and work of two major figures in American poetry and publishing in the second half of the twentieth century: Robert Giroux (1914-2008), editor-in-chief of Harcourt, Brace and Company and later of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and John Berryman (1914-1972), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Shakespearean scholar who also received a National Book Award and a Bollingen Prize for Poetry. From their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268108412
• ISBN13: 9780268108410
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"