Word: liveright
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, in nearly 50 years in publishing, Cerf never fell afoul of an author as severely as did his first boss in publishing, Horace Liveright. Just as he was about to leave for California in the '20s, Liveright persuaded Theodore Dreiser to let him try to sell An American Tragedy to the movies - with Liveright to get the agent's commission. Dreiser, who was convinced that no one would nibble, readily agreed...
When he returned, Liveright invited Dreiser to lunch and announced his triumph - a movie deal for the sum of $85,000. Dreiser was delighted at the unexpected windfall, but considerably less delighted when he was reminded of Liveright's commission. "Do you mean you're going to take my money?" he asked. "Just at this moment, the waiter brought the coffee in," writes Cerf, the ever faithful reporter. "Suddenly Dreiser seized his cup and threw the steaming coffee in Liveright's face. [He] got up from the table without a word and marched out of the restaurant...
...Liveright Feltenstein Berkeley Heights...
...Anna Dostoevsky's Dostoevsky: Reminiscences has been translated into English for the first time and published by Liveright...
Gossip has it that Hemingway wrote the parody because he wanted to break his own contract with Boni & Liveright, Anderson's publisher, and go to Scribners. The firm sided with Anderson, and released Hemingway from his contract. Scribners got Torrents and the following year The Sun Also Rises. Anderson had the last word however. "It might have been humorous had Max Beerbohm condensed it to twelve pages," he said-and he was right. ·Martha Duffy