Donald Klopfer
Donald Klopfer · Arts & Literature
Co-founded Random House with Bennett Cerf in 1927 and ran it from the inside for half a century; flew thirty-five bombing missions over Germany in between.
23 January 1902, New York City, USA — 30 May 1986, New York City, USA
New York, USA
Donald Klopfer is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Co-founded Random House with Bennett Cerf in 1927 and ran it from the inside for half a century; flew thirty-five bombing missions over Germany in between.
Donald Simon Klopfer was born in New York to Jewish parents, Simon Klopfer and Stella Danzinger. In 1925, at twenty-three, he and Bennett Cerf bought the Modern Library from Boni & Liveright, and two years later founded Random House on the side of it. Klopfer was the inside man to Cerf's public face, and ran the house for half a century. In between he flew thirty-five bombing missions over Germany with the Eighth Air Force.
In 1967 he resigned from the American Council for Judaism over a statement he and other Jewish leaders found repugnant — the kind of quiet line-drawing that ran through his life.
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Co-founded Random House with Bennett Cerf in 1927 and ran it from the inside for half a century; flew thirty-five bombing missions over Germany in between.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_S._Klopfer
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