Roger W. Straus Jr.
Roger W. Straus Jr. · Arts & Literature
Co-founded Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1946 and made it the most decorated literary house in America — more than twenty of its authors have won the Nobel.
3 January 1917, New York City, USA — 25 May 2004, New York City, USA
New York, USA
Farrar, Straus and Giroux1946Roger W. Straus Jr. is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Co-founded Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1946 and made it the most decorated literary house in America — more than twenty of its authors have won the Nobel.
Roger Williams Straus Jr. was born in New York and, in the words of his Wikipedia article, 'raised in a wealthy and influential Jewish family': a Guggenheim on his mother's side, a Straus on his father's, and grandson of Oscar Straus, the first Jew to sit in an American cabinet. He could have gone into the family businesses and instead started a publishing house. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, founded in 1946, became the most decorated literary imprint in the United States — more than twenty of its authors have won the Nobel Prize — and Straus ran it as an independent for nearly sixty years, refusing to let it be swallowed.
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Co-founded Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1946 and made it the most decorated literary house in America — more than twenty of its authors have won the Nobel.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_W._Straus_Jr.
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