Straus, Roger Williams, Jr.

Straus, Roger Williams, Jr.
▪ 2005

      American publisher (b. Jan. 3, 1917, New York, N.Y.—d. May 25, 2004, New York City), founded the New York-based publishing house Farrar, Straus & Co. in 1946; it became Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1964. Under his leadership the firm built a reputation for literary excellence, publishing the works of such notable writers as T.S. Eliot, Flannery O'Connor, and Isaac Bashevis Singer. He sold the firm in 1994 but remained largely in control.

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