Little, Brown
Liveright, Horace
London; Blanche’s trip to, via military transport; bombing of; Knopf office in; rationing in; Ritz in
Long Goodbye, The (Chandler)
Loos, Anita
Loveman, Amy
Lowe-Porter, Helen T.
Loy, Mina
Loy, Myrna
Lucy Gayheart (Cather)
Luhan, Mabel Dodge
Luhan, Tony
Lusty, Robert
MacArthur, Douglas
MacCarthy, Desmond
Macdonald, Ross (Kenneth Millar)
Macmillan
Madame Bovary (Flaubert)
Mademoiselle de Maupin (Gautier)
Madison, Charles A.
Magic Mountain, The (Mann)
Mailer, Norman; The Deer Park; The Naked and the Dead
Mainbocher
Main Street (Lewis)
Making of a Lady, The (Haardt)
Making of the President, 1960, The (White)
Making of the President, 1964, The (White)
Malcolm X
Malraux, André
Maltese Falcon, The (Hammett)
Mandelbaum Gate, The (Spark)
Mann, Herbie
Mann, Katia
Mann, Monika
Mann, Thomas; The Black Swan; Buddenbrooks; communism and; Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man; death of; Joseph and His Brothers; The Magic Mountain
Manon Lescaut (Prévost)
Mansfield, Katherine
Mansions and the Shanties, The (Freyre)
March, Frederic
Marchand, Leslie
Marinoff, Fania
Markings (Hammarskjöld)
Marquand, John
Marshall Field’s
Marshall Plan
Marx, Groucho
Mastering the Art of French Cooking (Child)
Masters and the Slaves, The (Freyre)
Maugham, W. Somerset
Maupassant, Guy de
Maxwell, Emily
Maxwell, William
Mayer, Mrs. Louis B.
Mayne, E. H.
McBride, Robert
McCarthy, Joseph
McCormick, Anne O’Hare
McCullers, Carson
McGraw-Hill
McKuen, Rod
Mead, Margaret
Meeker, Arthur
Meet Me at the Morgue (Macdonald)
Mencken, August
Mencken, Henry Louis “H. L.”; The American Language; borzoi lamp and; Clendening and; death of; funeral for; Happy Days; marriage of; Newspaper Days; on Prohibition; “Puritanism as a Literary Force”; Sara Haardt Mencken’s death and; Scopes “Monkey Trial” and; stroke suffered by; surgery of
Mencken, Sara Haardt, see Haardt, Sara
Menninger, Karl
Merriam-Webster
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Mildred Pierce (Cain)
Milgrim, Sally
Mill, John Stuart
Millar, Kenneth, see Macdonald, Ross
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Miller, Henry
Miłosz, Czesław; The Captive Mind
Mind of the South, The (Cash)
Mitchum, Robert
Mitgang, Herbert
Modern Library
Moiseiwitsch, Benno
Monsarrat, Nicholas
Montagu, Ashley
Monterey, Carlotta
Montessori school program
Monument Valley
Moon-Calf (Dell)
Moore, George
Morand, Paul
Mornings in Mexico (Lawrence)
Mortensen, A. M.
Morton, Frederic
Moses and Monotheism (Freud)
Moving Target, The (Macdonald)
Muir, Edwin
Munich
Murder, My Sweet
Murrow, Edward R.
Murrow, Janet
music: classical; jazz
Music and Bad Manners (Van Vechten)
My Ántonia (Cather)
My Friend from Kentucky
Myth of Sisyphus, The (Camus)
Nabuco, Mauricio
Naked and the Dead, The (Mailer)
Nana (Zola)
Nasoff, Ruth Levine
Nast, Condé
Nathan, George Jean
Nathan, Robert
Nation, The
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
National Book Awards
National Order of the Southern Cross
National Park Service
Navigator, The (Roy)
Nazi Germany; Austria annexed by; Kristallnacht in; Nuremberg Rally and; Nuremberg trials and; Shirer’s Berlin Diary on; South America and
Nazis, North American
Nelson, Clark “Lyonel”
Never Love a Stranger (Robbins)
New Republic, The
New Song, A (Hughes)
Newspaper Days (Mencken)
New Statesman
Newsweek
New York Amsterdam News
New York Call, The
New York City; Algonquin Hotel in; blizzard in; Greenwich Village; Harlem; Harlem Renaissance in; Prohibition in
New Yorker, The; series on the Knopfs in
New York Herald Tribune
New York Press
New York Public Library
New York Society for the Suppression of Vice
New York Times, The
New York Times Book Review, The
New York Women’s Trade Union League
New York World, The
Nigger Heaven (Van Vechten)
Nobel Prize; Camus’s winning of; Lewis’s winning of
No Exit (Sartre)
No Food with My Meals (Hurst)
Nolan, William
Notebooks of Major Thompson, The (Daninos)
Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2) (Duchamp)
Nuremberg Rally
Nuremberg trials
Nursery Rhymes (Sackville-West)
obscenity
Ocampo, Victoria
O. Henry Award
O’Neill, Eugene
One of Ours (Cather)
On Writing (King)
O Pioneers! (Cather)
Oppenheimer, George
Opportunity
Order and Progress (Freyre)
Orlando (Woolf)
Orphan Angel, The (Wylie)
Osborn, Paul
Panama-Pacific International Exposition
Pantheon Books
Paramount Pictures
Parker, Dorothy
Parker House
Parshley, Howard M.
Partisan Review
Pasquale, Angeles “Toni”
Past All Dishonor (Cain)
Patton, George S.
Pawling, Sydney
Peabody, Elizabeth
Pearl Harbor
PEN (Poets, Essayists, and Novelists)
Perfect Hostess Cook Book, The (Knopf)
Peterson, Virgilia
Peter Whiffle: His Life and Works (Van Vechten)
Pforzheimer, Carl
Pforzheimer, Carol
Phillips, William
Phillips Exeter Academy
Pigeon Feathers (Updike)
Pilgrimage (Richardson)
Piney Woods School for Negro Children
Pittsburgh Courier
Plague, The (Camus)
Plimpton Press
Plumed Serpent, The (Lawrence)
Poetry
Poland
Popular Science
Porgy and Bess (Gershwin)
“Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia” (Stein)
Portrait of Jennie (Nathan)
Postman Always Rings Twice, The (Cain)
Pound, Ezra
Powell, Dick
Powell, William
Prelude to Victory (Reston)
Prensa, La
/> Prescott, Orville
Prescott, Peter
Prévost, Antoine François
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The (Spark)
Pringle, Aileen
Pritchett, V. S.
Professor’s House, The (Cather)
Prohibition
Prophet, The (Gibran)
Provincetown Playhouse
Przbyszewski, Stanislaw
Publishers’ Lunch Club
Publishers Weekly; features on Blanche in
publishing industry; camaraderie in; Cheney report on; Jews and; mergers and acquisitions in; Statler Hilton conference for; women in
Puerto Rico
Pulitzer Prize
“Puritanism as a Literary Force” (Mencken)
Putnam
Queed (Harrison)
Rabbit, Run (Updike)
Rachmaninoff, Sergei
Rainbow, The (Lawrence)
Rampersad, Arnold
Random House; Knopf acquired by; RCA’s acquisition of
Ransom, Harry Huntt
Ransom, John Crowe
Rascoe, Burton
Rauschenberg, Robert
Ravel, Maurice
RCA
Reader’s Digest
Red Harvest (Hammett)
Reed, John
Reston, James B. “Scotty”; Prelude to Victory
Reston, Sally
Return from the U.S.S.R. (Gide)
“Reuben and Rachel”
Reviewer, The
Rhapsody in Blue (Gershwin)
Rich, Adrienne
Rich, Arnold
Richardson, Dorothy
Rich’s department store
Richter, Conrad
Rinehart & Company
Ritz
Robbins, Harold
Robertson, Ben
Robeson, Essie
Robeson, Paul
Robinson, Phyllis
Rockwell, Norman
Room of One’s Own, A (Woolf)
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Rosenberg, Jim
Ross, Harold
Roth, William M.
Rothschilds, The: A Family Portrait (Morton)
Row, Peterson & Company
Roy, Jules
Rubinstein, Arthur
Rubinstein, Nela
Russian books
Ryan, Cornelius
Rytand, D. A.
Sacre du Printemps, Le (Stravinsky)
Sackville-West, Vita
Salon des Indépendants
Samuel Knopf & Co.
Samuels, Lehman
Samuels Brothers
Sanctuary (Faulkner)
San Francisco Chronicle
Sanger, Margaret
Sans Souci (Westchester home)
Sapphira and the Slave Girl (Cather)
Sartre, Jean-Paul; No Exit
Saturday Review of Literature
Scandals
Schepps, Seaman
Schiaparelli, Elsa
Schiff, Stacy
Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.
Schur, Max
Schwarz-Bart, André
Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth
Scopes “Monkey Trial”
Scottsboro Boys
Scribner’s, see Charles Scribner’s Sons
Seabrook, Marjory Worthington
Seabrook, William
Search for a Method (Sartre)
Second Sex, The (de Beauvoir)
Sedgwick, Ellery
Selected Poems (Hughes)
Selected Poems (Jarrell)
Seltzer, Thomas
Selznick, David O.
Serenade (Cain)
Sevareid, Eric
sexuality; homosexuality; Kinsey Report and; see also obscenity
Shadows on the Rock (Cather)
Shakespeare, William
SHAPE International Library
Sheehan, Susan
Shelley, Mary
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Shirer, William; Berlin Diary
Shuffle Along
Silverman, Al
Simon & Schuster
Sinclair, Upton
Sitwell, Edith
Smart Set, The
Smith, Clara
Smith, T. R.
Snow Goose, The: A Story of Dunkirk (Gallico)
Sobrados e Mucambos (The Mansions and the Shanties: The Making of Modern Brazil) (Freyre)
Song of the Lark, The (Cather)
Sonn and Wolf
Sons and Lovers (Lawrence)
Sorrell and Son (Deeping)
South America: Blanche and Alfred’s trips to; Blanche’s trip to
Southern Album (Haardt)
Soviet Union; in Cuban Missile Crisis
Spark, Muriel; The Girls of Slender Means; The Mandelbaum Gate; The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Spender, Stephen
Spingarn, Amy
Spingarn, Joel
Spirit of St. Louis
Stacks, John
Stagecoach
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur
Stegner, Wallace
Stein, Gertrude
Stevens, Wallace
Stevenson, Adlai
St. Mawr (Lawrence)
stock market crash
Stokowski, Leopold; Ninth Symphony of
Stone, Lucy
Stranger, The (Camus)
Stettheimer, Ettie
Straus, Roger
Strauss, Harold
Strauss, Richard
Stravinsky, Igor; Le Sacre du Printemps
Studs Lonigan (Farrell)
Sullivan, Louis
Sumner, John
Sydney, Basil
Syracuse Herald-Journal
Taft, Horace
Taft, Robert
Taft, William
Tainter, M. L.
Talese, Nan
Tanglewood Music Festival
Taras Bulba: A Tale of the Cossacks (Gogol)
Tarkington, Booth
Tarnower, Herman “Hy”
Tate, Allen
Tattooed Countess, The (Van Vechten)
Taylor, Elizabeth (novelist)
Tebbel, John
Tell Me a Story (Canfield)
Thin Man, The (Hammett)
This Is My Beloved (Benton)
This Side of Paradise (Fitzgerald)
Thomas Seltzer, Inc.
Thompson, Dorothy
Thompson, Lewis
Thoreau, Henry David
Three Black Pennys, The (Hergesheimer)
Thurman, Wallace
Tierney, Gene
Time
Time for Decision, The (Welles)
Times Literary Supplement, The
Tipografia Giuntina
Tito, Josip Broz
Toklas, Alice B.
Toscani, Frank E.
Totten, John
Town & Country
Training Your Own Dog (Samstag)
Transcendentalists
Trial, The (Kafka)
Trifles (Glaspell)
Trilling, Diana
Trivial Breath (Wylie)
Truman, Harry
Tunner, William
Tutors’ Lane (Lewis)
Twain, Mark
Tyler, Anne
Ulysses (Joyce)
Undset, Sigrid
Union College
University of Texas
Untermeyer, Louis
Updike, John
Vail-Ballou Press
Vanderbilt, Gloria
Vanderbilt, Mrs. Cornelius
Van Doren, Carl
Vanity Fair
Van Vechten, Carl; birthday parties for; The Blind Bow-Boy; decline and death of; Hughes and; Nigger Heaven; Peter Whiffle; The Tattooed Countess
Van Vechten, Emma
Van Vechten, Fania, see Marinoff, Fania
Van Vechten, Ralph
Vaudrin, Philip
Vidor, King
Viking
Village Voice, The
Vintage Books
Vogue; British
Volstead, Andrew
Volstead Act; see also Prohibition
V.V.’s Eyes (Harrison)
Wagner, Richard
Walker, A’Lelia
Walker, C. J.
Wall, The (Hersey)
Wall Street Journal, The
Walpole, Horace
Walpole, Hugh
Wanamaker’s
Warburg, Felix
Warner Bros.
Warren, Robert Penn
Washington, Booker T.
Wasserman, Eddie
Waste Land, The (Eliot)
Waters, Ethel
Wayne, John
Ways of White Folks, The (Hughes)
Weary Blues, The (Hughes)
Webster’s New International Dictionary
Wedding Night, The
Weinstock, Herbert
Welles, Mathilde
Welles, Sumner
Well of Loneliness, The (Hall)
Wells, H. G.
West, Rebecca
W. F. Etherington and Co.
Wheeler, Wayne
White, George
White, Newman Ivey
White, Theodore H.
White, Walter
Whiteman, Paul
Whitman, Walt
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Albee)
Wilde, Oscar
Williams, Bert
Wilson, Edmund
Winesburg, Ohio (Anderson)
Winston, Harry
Wolf, Bertha Samuels (Blanche’s mother); illness and death of
Wolf, Irma (Blanche’s sister-in-law)
Wolf, Irving (Blanche’s brother)
Wolf, Julius (Blanche’s father); death of; move to New York City
Wolfe, Thomas
Wolfe, Tom
Wolff, Helen
Wolff, Kurt
Woman of Thirty, A (Balzac)
Women in Love (Lawrence)
Woolf, Leonard
Woolf, Virginia; A Room of One’s Own
Woollcott, Alexander
Woolsey, John M.
Words Are Stones (Levi)
World, The
World of Love, A (Bowen)
World War I
World War II; end of; Knopf books about; London bombings in; Pat Knopf’s service in; Pearl Harbor; South America and; see also Nazi Germany
Wylie, Elinor; death of; The Orphan Angel
Wylie, Philip
Yale University
Yankee Clipper
Yellowstone National Park
Youth and the Bright Medusa (Cather)
Yvette, a Novelette, and Ten Other Stories (Maupassant)
Zola, Émile
Zweig, Stefan
All images are courtesy of the Photography Collection, Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin, unless otherwise noted.
Blanche and her borzoi, the breed that inspired the Knopf colophon, 1917
Portrait of Blanche by G. Maillard Kesslere, circa 1920s
Bertha Samuels Wolf and Julius Wolf, circa 1910
An unclothed Alfred, in a rare photo taken by Blanche, 1921
Blanche and Alfred with their bloodhound in Mount Kisco, N.Y., 1924. It was the only English bloodhound to exhibit that year and won a ribbon by default.
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