Kurt Wolff: A Portrait in Essays and Letters

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. First edition. Edges lightly foxed. 1991 Hard Cover. 252 pp. Kurt Wolff (1887-1963) was a singular presence in the literary world of the twentieth century, a cultural force shaping modern literature itself and pioneering significant changes in publishing. During an intense, active career that spanned two continents and five decades, Wolff launched seven publishing houses and nurtured an extraordinary array of writers, among them Franz Kafka, Lou Andreas-Salome, Boris Pasternak, Gunter Grass, Robert Musil, Paul Valery, Julian Green, Lampedusa, and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.