9 Sep 2007 · A trove of rejection files from Alfred A. Knopf Inc. includes dismissive verdicts on the likes of Jorge Luis Borges ... By David Oshinsky.

David Oshinsky set out to find rejection letters of famous novelists and fellow historians. Here's a doozy: In the summer of 1950, Alfred A. Knopf Inc.

9 Sep 2007 · Knopf. Oshinsky's general finding is that, “the great bulk of the reader?s reports seemed fair-minded and persuasive. Put simply, a rejected ...

David M. Oshinsky, Pulitzer Prize winner and holder of the Jack S. Blanton ... These readers' reports and letters show that Knopf and his staff rejected ...

18 Sep 2011 · Of all the rejection letters that caught Mr Oshinsky's eye, none tickled him more than this one posted to a prominent professor of history at ...

Rejections, disruptions and impasses in translator–publisher correspondence. ... David Oshinsky (2007) lists famous failures such as Knopf's rejection of ...

As David oshinsky wrote in the september 7, 2007, issue of The New York Times, The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank, would be rejected by 15 publishers ...

V. O. Keys, Southern Politics in State and Nation (New York: Knopf, ... Hindus, Prison and Plantation; Colvin, Penitentiaries; Oshinsky, Parchman Farm. 42.

Life rejected it, and it wound up in The New Yorker, ... David M. Oshinsky, A Conspiracy So Immense: The World ofJoe McCarthy (New York: Free Press, 1983), ...

... and One Hundred Years ofRegulation (New York: Knopf, 2003 ), 35–71. 11. ... of Spanish flu and pigs would prompt people to reject eating pork products.