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A fellow of infinite jest
Book by Yoseloff, Thomas
Hardcover
First published January 1, 1945
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About the author
Thomas Yoseloff
28 books1 followerThomas Yoseloff was one of the first US publishers to open an office in London after the war and in 1959 bought the Golden Cockerel Press. He only issued two books under the imprint, having discovered that the resources and money needed were scant in Britain at the time, but continued to publish in the US and UK under the Associated University Presses imprint and remained an anglophile.
His journey to publishing was a classic rags to riches story. He was born to Russian Jewish parents in Sioux City, Iowa, and became the breadwinner when money from his father's itinerant work stopped coming in. He eventually won a scholarship to the University of Iowa, where he graduated in journalism, developed a friendship with artist-in-residence Grant Wood and met Gertrude Stein and Thomas Hart Benton. In 1935, he left for New York and as a young journalist wrote for newspapers there, and in Florida, before returning to New York as president of publishers Bernard Ackerman Inc, before setting up his own firm, Beechurst Press in 1939, earning him the nickname of "the boy wonder of publishing". He was later owner and director of AS Barnes and Company, the Sagamore Press, and director of the University of Pennsylvania Press.
He was also the co-author of a children's version of The Merry Adventures of Till Eulenspiegel, the editor of a symposium entitled Seven Poets in Search of an Answer (which included the work of Langston Hughes and Joy Davidman, who later married C.S. Lewis), author of an autobiographical work, The Time of My Life and a biography of Laurence Sterne, A Fellow of Infinite Jest.
His journey to publishing was a classic rags to riches story. He was born to Russian Jewish parents in Sioux City, Iowa, and became the breadwinner when money from his father's itinerant work stopped coming in. He eventually won a scholarship to the University of Iowa, where he graduated in journalism, developed a friendship with artist-in-residence Grant Wood and met Gertrude Stein and Thomas Hart Benton. In 1935, he left for New York and as a young journalist wrote for newspapers there, and in Florida, before returning to New York as president of publishers Bernard Ackerman Inc, before setting up his own firm, Beechurst Press in 1939, earning him the nickname of "the boy wonder of publishing". He was later owner and director of AS Barnes and Company, the Sagamore Press, and director of the University of Pennsylvania Press.
He was also the co-author of a children's version of The Merry Adventures of Till Eulenspiegel, the editor of a symposium entitled Seven Poets in Search of an Answer (which included the work of Langston Hughes and Joy Davidman, who later married C.S. Lewis), author of an autobiographical work, The Time of My Life and a biography of Laurence Sterne, A Fellow of Infinite Jest.
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June 18, 2010
I have been interested in the history or L. Sterne and found this biography to be informative and useful. I had no idea how suddenly his impact was felt in London when he "arrived". Amazing in those pre-viral marketing days indeed. Fascinating book!
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