These words were spoken with the confidence of a man who knows he is the subject of an Esquire feature. His photo catches him mid-laugh, brown eyes squinting behind horn-rimmed glasses, ...

Former employees of Alfred A. (for Abraham) Knopf, a publisher with the appearance and manner of a retired Cossack sergeant, recall that on the frequent occasions when Knopf was displeased, he would ...

Without a blush, Publisher Bennett Cerf predicted last week that while Samuel Johnson was the great lexicog rapher of the 18th century and Noah Webster of the 19th, Random House will be the best of ...

It was Bennett Cerf—founder of Random House, conscience of What’s My Line—who gazed over the bestseller lists of his day and invented the can’t-miss title for a book-publishing smash hit. Lincoln’s ...

Irrepressible Bennett Cerf, president of Random House, has pasted together six anthologies in eight years (including The Bedside Book of Famous Stories, The Pocket Book of War Humor). Now he has made ...

WARS I HAVE SEEN—Gertrude Stein —Random House ($2.50), “Not many people,” observed Gertrude Stein’s U.S. publisher, Bennett Cerf, in his best-selling Try and Stop Me, “even claim to understand the ...