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Bennett Alfred Cerf (May 25, 1898 – August 27, 1971) was an American writer, publisher, and co-founder of the American publishing firm Random House.
Bennett Cerf (born May 25, 1898, New York, New York, U.S.—died August 27, 1971, Mount Kisco, New York) was an American publisher and editor. With Donald S. Klopfer, in 1925 Cerf acquired the Modern Library imprint, which subsequently became a highly profitable series of reprints of classic books.
Aug 29, 1971 · Bennett Cerf, one of the coun try's foremost book publishers, died late Friday night at his estate in Mount Kisco, N. Y. He was 73 years old. The cause of death was not immediately determined,...
May 29, 2018 · Bennett Cerf (1898-1971) helped to shape the American publishing business into what it is today. A writer and television personality, Cerf was also an active editor and enthusiastic promoter of the writers published by his company, Random House.
Jan 1, 2001 · So recounts Bennett Cerf in this wonderfully amusing memoir of the making of a great publishing house. An incomparable raconteur, possessed of an irrepressible wit and an abiding love of books and authors, Cerf brilliantly evokes the heady days of Random House’s first decades.
Bennett Cerf, eminent publisher and punster, was a founder and chairman of Random House Books, a writer and editor of many humor books, and a popular panelist on television's long-running game show, What's My Line?
Jan 10, 2016 · Bennett Alfred Cerf, May 25, 1898 – August 27, 1971, was an American publisher, one of the founders of American publishing firm Random House.
Mar 5, 2002 · Let's call it Random House." So recounts Bennett Cerf in this wonderfully amusing memoir of the making of a great publishing house. An incomparable raconteur, possessed of an irrepressible wit and an abiding love of books and authors, Cerf brilliantly evokes the heady days of Random House's first decades.
Generations of children may have been introduced to Bennett Cerf by his Book of Riddles, but he was more than just a compiler of humor: An extroverted punster and raconteur who published some of the twentieth century's most celebrated writers, Cerf was a celebrity in his own right, editing anthologies, writing a syndicated newspaper column, and ...
Jun 20, 2012 · In the first, Bennett Cerf (1898-1971), a cofounder and a longtime publisher of Random House, tells stories of his interactions with famous writers and cultural celebrities of his time, including Eugene O’Neill, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, D.H. Lawrence, George Bernard Shaw, William Faulkner, Ayn Rand, and George Gershwin.
