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Look what he has done with Atheneum, which is amazing.

Cerf:

Alfred was wrong. The Knopf alumni association is all over the publishing business...people who had worked for Knopf and couldn't stand it because Alfred is a loner. His wife was more dictatorial. They spent their years fighting with each other and developing a magnificent publishing business. That's the funny part of it, with all of his quirks and his inability to keep good editors because he would override them all of the time--the Knopf list is the mark of a wonderful, distinguished publisher. He's one of the great ones of our time--maybe the greatest.





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