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...first met Barrett Beatrice Jackson ’06 because she lived across the hall from me in Straus C. We shook hands, exchanged names and then I avoided her for a month because of nothing more than her accent. Worse, she was a former beauty queen...
...Blunt Man of the Book When Roger Straus, the flamboyant co-founder and editor in chief of publishing house Farrar, Straus & Giroux, died in May at age 87, the literary world lost one of its most colorful characters [MILESTONES, June 7]. TIME profiled Straus in 1988, when his company was reaping prizes and profits...
...outspoken Straus bluntly rejects the nostalgic notion that publishing was once a gentlemen's business. 'They were poor businessmen,' he says of many of the resonant names of the profession, 'poor marketers out to massage their own egos generation after generation.' Straus shuns the bureaucratic style of those merged entities resulting from takeovers by huge conglomerates that demand a fast return on their investment. He works in close contact with his employees. When the air conditioning broke down, he dashed out to buy Good Humors for the entire staff ... FS&G's authors seem glad to forgo the ritual overpriced...
DIED. ROGER STRAUS, 87, the dominant force in the publishing house Farrar, Straus and Giroux; in New York City. An heir to the Guggenheim fortune, he teamed up with John Farrar to form one of America's most prestigious independent publishers, whose roster of celebrated authors included T.S. Eliot, Nadine Gordimer and Isaac Bashevis Singer. "Newspapers wrap up fish," he once said. "Books are in the library forever...
...DIED. ROGER STRAUS JR., 87, sharp-tongued and fiercely independent co-founder of publishing house Farrar, Straus and Giroux, whose roster of authors has included T.S. Eliot, Flannery O'Connor and Tom Wolfe; in New York City. A critic of the publishing industry's overcommercialization, Straus, who started the business with John Farrar in 1946, sold out to a European conglomerate in 1994 but managed to retain a high degree of editorial autonomy. Publishing houses run by conglomerates, he said, "could just as well be selling string, spaghetti or rugs...