Benjamin Chambers writes:
Alfred Knopf Jr., co-founder of the Atheneum Publishing, died on Valentine’s Day at 90. Atheneum merged with Charles Scribner’s and Sons in 1978, and is now an imprint of Simon & Schuster, though it now publishes childrens’ books exclusively. Atheneum started off with a bang, however, with bestsellers The Last of the Just, and The Making of the President, 1960. Not bad for a kid who ran away to Salt Lake City after he didn’t make it into Princeton.
New Yorker contributors published at Atheneum: Edward Albee, Wright Morris, and … anyone know of others?