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Frank Morley, who had worked in London at Faber and Faber, was the new head of Harcourt Brace, and he hired me to start in 1940. The early years at Harcourt were wonderful. Almost my first assignment was Virginia Woolf's novel 'Between the Acts.'

~Robert Giroux

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Isaac Singer always wrote in Yiddish. He was so unsure of his English at the beginning that he was easy to edit and he learned fast.

~Robert Giroux

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Many poets, as you know, are not good readers.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Editor

Born: April 8th, 1914

Died: September 5th, 2008

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