Saunders, Marian
Schiffrin, André
Schine, David
Schmidt, Judith
Schneider, Alan
Schneider, Isidor
Schorer, Mark
Schuster, Max
Screens (Genet)
Seale, Bobby
Seamen’s Church Institute
Seaver, Alexander Medina (son)
Seaver, Edwin (no relation)
Seaver, Jeannette Sabine Medina (wife): arrival with RS in New York from Paris; birth of daughter; birth of son; and Democratic convention, 1968, Chicago; European concert tours; first pregnancy; and Genet; middle name; as newlywed; during RS’s time in the navy; second pregnancy; wins Paris Conservatory violinist first prize; see also Medina, Jeannette
Seaver, Nathalie Anne (daughter)
Seaver, Richard: arrival in Normandy for work camp; awarded fellowships to study in France; birth of daughter; birth of son; as book club editor; budding relationship with Jeannette Medina; college education; edits USS Columbus cruise book; first meets Barney Rosset; hired by Grove Press; as instructor at Pomfret School; Joyce as thesis topic; leaves Grove Press; as management consultant; marries Jeannette Medina; military service; moves family from Bronxville to Coenties Slip; at 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago; pseudonymously translates Grove’s English-language edition of Story of O; publishing career after Grove Press; returns to navy; returns to Paris en route to Formentor Prize; translations; as translator-interpreter for American construction company outside Chaumont; work on Beckett translations
Secker and Warburg
Seix Barral (publisher); and Formentor Prize
Selby, Hubert, Jr.
Semprun, Jorge
Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance (Arden)
Seuil (publisher)
Sevareid, Eric
Seven Arts Book Society
Sexually Responsive Woman, The (Kronhausen)
Seyrig, Delphine
Shakespeare, William
Shakespeare and Company
Shapiro, Karl
Shapiro, Myron
Sheed and Ward
Shimkin, Leon
Simon, John
Simon and Schuster
Slappy, Frieda
Slight Ache, A (Pinter)
Smith, Lillian
Smith, William Gardner
Sobel, Nat
Sorbonne, RS at
Southern, Terry; and Naked Lunch; and 1968 Democratic convention
Southgate, Patsy
South Street Seaport, see Coenties Slip, New York City
SPAN (Student Project for Amity Among Nations)
Speculations About Jakob (Johnson)
Stalin, Joseph
Stein, Gertrude
Stendhal
Stendhal et Compagnie
St. Jorre, John de
Stone, Jerry
Stoppard, Tom
Story of O (Réage): comparison with The Image; first English-language edition; Grove negotiates for English-language rights; as Grove Press publication; laudatory reviews; limited initial interest; on New York Times bestseller list; Pauvert and; pseudonymous author; RS pseudonymously translates Grove’s English-language edition; wins Prix des Deux Magots
Strange Fruit (Smith)
Strange Victory (film)
Strindberg, August
Strong, Dexter
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
“Suite” (Beckett); see also “La fin” (Beckett)
Summerfield, Arthur
Supreme Court, U.S.
Sussman, Al
Tansey, Mary
Taste of Honey, A (Delaney)
Taylor, Telford
“Texte pour Rien” (Beckett)
“Text for Nothing” (Beckett)
Théâtre de Babylone, Paris
Théâtre de la Huchette, Paris
Théâtre Lancry, Paris
Theis, Jeanne
Theis family
Thief’s Journal, The (Genet)
Three Dialogues with Georges Duthuit (Beckett)
Three Plays (Mortimer)
Thurber, James
Tiger (steamship)
Time Inc.
Timofeyev, Comrade
Tom Jones (book from film)
Toole, Wyc
Topkis, Jay
Toulet, Jean
Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy (Berne)
Traveller’s Companion imprint
Trocchi, Alex: alliance with Olympia Press; attention to Merlin wanes; as author of Cain’s Book, published by Grove Press; as author of “A Meeting,” published in Merlin; as author of Young Adam, published by Olympia Press; asks RS to write piece about Beckett for Merlin, and Beckett’s Watt; and Collection Merlin; drug habit; as editor of Merlin; first meets Barney Rosset; as friend of Patrick Bowles; as Grove Press author; as Merlinite; in New York City; at 1962 Edinburgh Festival; RS first meets; after RS leaves Paris; view of Sartre
Trocchi, Lyn
Trocchi, Mark
Tropic of Cancer (Miller): copyright status; court cases; Grove’s interest in publishing; impact on Grove Press; publication of Grove edition; published by Obelisk Press, Paris; rights issues; Rosset writes Swarthmore paper on; unauthorized paperback editions;
Tropic of Capricorn (Miller)
Truffaut, François
Tulin, Steven
Tynan, Kenneth
Ulysses (Joyce)
UNC (University of North Carolina)
union organizers
Unnamable, The (Beckett)
U.S. Customs Service
U.S. Navy: RS returns to; V-12 program
U.S. Post Office; moves against Lady Chatterley’s Lover
U.S. Supreme Court
V-12 program, U.S. Navy
Vail, Sinbad
van Velde, Bram
van Velde, Jacoba
Vaudable, Monsieur
Venus, Grove mass-market book line
Venus Bound (St. Jorre)
Vienna, Austria: four-power postwar occupation; RS in
Vietnam War
Vigo, Jean
Viking Press; see also Penguin USA
Visit, The (Dürrenmatt)
Vittorini, Elio
Vogel, Amos
Voyeur (Robbe-Grillet)
Voznesensky, Andrei
Wainhouse, Austryn: as author of Hedyphagetica; background; as Merlinite; after RS leaves Paris; as translator for Girodias; as translator of Sade; view of alliance with publisher of erotica
Wainhouse, Muffie
Waiting for Godot (Beckett): film director; French radio production; German production; Grove publishes; Paris theater production; relative publication success
Wakefield, Dan
Wallrich, Larry
Walter, Eugene
Wand and Quadrant (Logue)
Warburg, Fredric
Warren, Joe
Watt (Beckett): author personally delivers copy to rue du Sabot; author’s addenda to; Collection Merlin’s interest in publishing; cover color of Collection Merlin edition; extract in Merlin issue number three; as first feature publication of Collection Merlin; hors commerce copies of Collection Merlin edition; Merlinites’ initial group reading; original manuscript; rights issues; RS first learns about from J. Lindon
Watt, Richard
Weidenfeld (publisher); and Formentor Prize
Weidenfeld, George
Weinstein, Arnold
Welles, Orson
What Shall We Tell Caroline! (Mortimer)
Whip and the Lash, The; see also Story of O
White, Emil
Whitman, George
Wilentz, Eli
Wilentz, Ted
Williams, Alan
Wilson, Edmund
Wolff, Helen
Wolff, Kurt
Women’s Liberation Front
Woolf, Douglas
Worms, Miriam
Wretched of the Earth, The (Fanon)
Wright, Jack
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Wright, Richard
Yeats, William Butler
Young, Wayland
Young Adam (Trocchi)
Youngerman, Jack
Zazie dans le métro (Queneau)
Zebra, Grove mass-market book line
FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX
18 West 18th Street, New York 10011
Copyright © 2012 by Jeannette Seaver
Introduction copyright © 2012 by James Salter
All rights reserved
First edition, 2012
Photographs on title page and here (right), copyright © H. Riemens. Photograph here (left), copyright © Alain Resnais. Photograph on here (right), copyright © Mary Ellen Mark. All other photographs courtesy of Jeannette Seaver.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Seaver, Richard.
The tender hour of twilight : Paris in the ’50s, New York in the ’60s: a memoir of publishing’s golden age / Richard Seaver ; edited by Jeannette Seaver.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-374-27378-1 (alk. paper)
1. Seaver, Richard. 2. Publishers and publishing—United States—Biography. 3. Book editors—United States—Biography. 4. Translators—United States—Biography. I. Seaver, Jeannette. II. Title.
Z473.S426 S43 2012
070.5092—dc23
[B]
2011024951
www.fsgbooks.com
eISBN 978-1-4299-4989-7
Photograph on title page: Back row, left to right: George Plimpton, Richard Seaver, Corneille, Mary Smith, Patrick Bowles, Gaït Frogé, Jane Lougee; front row, left to right: Christopher Logue, Austryn Wainhouse, Christopher Middleton
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