Originally the camp was named after the hill Ettersberg but it was later renamed to Buchenwald ( German for beech forest ).< ref > As Vladimir Nabokov in Pnin ( New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004 ) puts it, " in the beautifully wooded Grosser Ettersburg, as the region is resoundingly called.

Also in 2005, Carolyn Burke's substantial biography, Lee Miller, A Life, was published in the U. S. by Alfred A. Knopf and in the U. K. by Bloomsbury.

An authorised abridgment of Lady Chatterley's Lover that was heavily censored was published in America by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. in 1928.

In 1938, Knopf signed a contract to publish the book, but when Rand was only a quarter done with manuscript by October 1940, Knopf canceled her contract.

Due to increasing differences with the publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, Sr., he served in that role for only a brief time, but Mencken wrote that Hazlitt was the " only competent critic of the arts that I have heard of who was at the same time a competent economist, of practical as well as theoretical training ," adding that he " is one of the few economists in human history who could really write.

Brower's background in publishing proved decisive ; with the help of publisher Alfred Knopf, This Is Dinosaur was rushed into press.

An abbreviated and heavily edited version of that work-in-progress, edited by Charles Ruas, was published in 1999 by the Alfred A. Knopf publishing group.

A Woman In Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton was published by Alfred A. Knopf on June 5, 2007 and became both a New York Times and national bestseller.

Merrill's first commercially published volume was First Poems, issued in 990 numbered copies by Alfred A. Knopf in 1951.

In late 2008 and early 2009, the Doubleday imprint was merged with Knopf Publishing Group to form the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Plummer's memoir, In Spite of Myself, was published by Knopf Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., in November 2008.

His latest book, Anatomy of Injustice: A Murder Case Gone Wrong, was published by Knopf in February 2012.

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator was first published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. in 1972, and in the United Kingdom by George Allen & Unwin in 1973.

The novel was rejected by at least five London publishing houses before being accepted by Knopf Canada, which published it in September 2001.

Through his cultural interests and his close friendships with white literary power brokers Carl Van Vechten and Alfred A. Knopf, White was one of the founders of the " New Negro " cultural flowering.

Alfred Abraham Knopf, Sr. ( September 12, 1892 – August 11, 1984 ) was an American publisher of the 20th century, and founder of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc .. His contemporaries included the likes of Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, and ( of the previous generation ) Frank Nelson Doubleday, J. Henry Harper and Henry Holt.

Knopf was born into a Jewish family in New York City.

His father Samuel Knopf was an advertising executive and financial consultant, his mother was Ida Japhe, and his brother Edwin H. Knopf, who worked for Alfred briefly, then became a film director and producer.

King produced an artist's book with designer Barbara Kruger in 1988, My Pretty Pony, published in a limited edition of 250 by the Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art, later released in a general trade edition by Alfred A. Knopf in 1989.

* Adler, Jacob, A Life on the Stage: A Memoir, translated and with commentary by Lulla Rosenfeld, Knopf, New York, 1999, ISBN 0-679-41351-0.

* The World of Charles Addams, by Charles Addams ( 1991 ), posthumously compiled from works with the copyright owned by his second wife, later named Lady Barbara Cloyton ( Knopf ) ISBN 0-394-58822-3

* Adler, Jacob, A Life on the Stage: A Memoir, translated and with commentary by Lulla Rosenfeld, Knopf, New York, 1999, ISBN 0-679-41351-0.

* One Man's America ( 1952 ) Alfred A Knopf, New York-same chapters as ' Letters from America ' ( 1951 ), with introduction ' To the American Reader '

The American publishers Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. and Pantheon Books were acquired by Random House in 1960 and 1961, respectively ; works continue to be published under these imprints with editorial independence, such as Everyman's Library, a series of classical literature reprints.

Later published by Alfred A. Knopf as a book, Hersey's work is often cited as one of the earliest examples of New Journalism in its melding of elements of non-fiction reportage with the pace and devices of the novel.

In German, nouns starting with " kno -" and " knö -" are mostly small and round: Knoblauch " garlic ", Knöchel " ankle ", Knödel " dumpling ", Knolle " tuber ", Knopf " button ", Knorren " knot ( in a tree )", Knospe " bud ( of a plant )", Knoten " knot ( in string or rope )".

* Anchor Books, produced quality paperbacks for bookstores ; named for the anchor that ( along with a dolphin ) forms Doubleday's colophon ; now part of the Knopf Publishing Group's Vintage Anchor unit

Taking advantage of his background in publishing, Brower rushed This is Dinosaur-edited by Wallace Stegner with photographs by Martin Litton and Philip Hyde-into press with publisher Alfred Knopf.

Soon, in association with New York publisher Alfred A. Knopf, the Audubon Field Guides became a staple of every artist's and environmentalist's library.

In keeping with the novel's theme of mutation, the lettering of the title employs mutated fonts, and the book's spine sports a five-legged dog, one of the rare instances when Knopf has allowed its dog logo to be altered.

In 2009, with the approval of the estate of Dashiell Hammett, the veteran detective-story writer Joe Gores published Spade & Archer: The Prequel to Dashiell Hammett's THE MALTESE FALCON with Alfred A. Knopf, the original publisher of Hammett's The Maltese Falcon.

Kristof's books, all co-authored with his wife Sheryl WuDunn, include China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power ( 1994 ), Thunder from the East: Portrait of a Rising Asia and Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide ( Knopf, September 2009 ).

The problem was solved in 1960, when Knopf merged with Random House, which was owned by the Knopf's close friends Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer.

Its current director general is Rabbi Chaim Moshe Knopf and its deputy director general is Knopf's son, Rabbi Elazar Knopf.

At that time European literature was largely neglected by American publishers ; Knopf published authors such as Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster, Sigmund Freud, André Gide, Franz Kafka, D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann, W. Somerset Maugham and Jean-Paul Sartre.

Other influential editors at Knopf included Harold Strauss ( Japanese literature ), Herbert Weinstock ( biography of musical jargon composers ), Judith Jones ( culinary texts ), as well as Angus Cameron, Charles Elliott, Lee Goerner, Robert Gottlieb, Ashbel Green, Carol Brown Janeway, Michael Magzis, Anne McCormick, Nancy Nicholas, Daniel Okrent, Regina Ryan, Sophie Wilkins, and Vicky Wilson.

Although The Second Scroll was not a commercial success in its first edition from Knopf in New York, a subsequent re-print in Canada's New Canadian Library ensured its survival as one of the significant works of modern Canadian literature.

* 1969: The Third Theatre ( Knopf ) – " a collection of pieces written between 1957 and 1968 ... that deal not only with theatre but also with literature, culture, and the movies " ( from the Preface ).

On its release, the literary establishment widely condemned the novel as overly violent and misogynistic ; though many petitions to ban the book saw Ellis dropped by Simon & Schuster, the resounding controversy made it a paperback bestseller for Alfred A. Knopf later that year.

" And though twelve Knopf authors had won Nobel Prizes, Knopf acknowledged that " some Nobel Prize books aren't very good ," calling Doctor Zhivago, for example, " incredibly tedious ...

The English publication rights to the book are owned by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc and although the publishers had been made aware of the problems with the English text, they long insisted that there was really no need for a new translation, even though Simone de Beauvoir herself explicitly requested one in a 1985 interview: " I would like very much for another translation of The Second Sex to be done, one that is much more faithful ; more complete and more faithful.

They were first combined into one volume under the collective title Parade's End ( which had been suggested by Ford, though he didn't live to see an omnibus version ) in the Knopf edition of 1950, which has been the basis of several subsequent reissues.

At least 17 Nobel Prize and 47 Pulitzer Prize winning authors have been published by Knopf, though they have also passed at times on subsequently notable books.