Schiffrin, André
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Name (Hebrew)
שיפרין, אנדרה
Name (Latin)
Schiffrin, André
Associated country
United States
Field of activity
Publishers and publishing
Occupation
Publishers and publishing
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- New York times (online), viewed Dec. 2, 2013(in obituary published Dec. 1: André Schiffrin; b. June 14, 1935, Paris; fled from the Nazis with his family and settled in New York, 1941; d. Sunday [Dec. 1, 2013], Paris; aged 78; publishing force for 50 years, whose passion for editorial independence produced shelves of serious books, a titanic collision with a conglomerate that forced him out to stem losses, and a late-in-life comeback as a nonprofit publisher; since 2005, he and his wife had divided their time between homes in Manhattan and Paris)
- The business of books, 2000:t.p. (André Schiffrin) jkt. (former managing dir., Pantheon; founder and director, New Press)
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