User:RavenQuoth/my sandbox - Robert Weil

Robert Weil is a literary editor and publishing director, recently named editor-in-chief of Norton's recently revived Liveright & Company imprint.

best known for publishing serious works of literature and history and making money doing so.

History of Liveright & Company: Boni & Liveright was a publishing house established in 1916 in New York City by Albert Boni and Horace Liveright. [1] The aim of the company was to publish work by modern authors. Boni & Liveright often printed works by authors considered to be avant-garde and even immoral according to anti-vice societies of the period.[2] They published works by modernist authors such as Theodore Dreiser, Leo Stein, Conrad Aiken, Hilda Doolittle, Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, e.e. cummings and William Faulkner.[2] In 1921 Boni & Liveright agreed to publish James Joyce's Ulysses, but were forced to withdraw from the contract because of actions by the Society for Suppression of Vice that brought censure from the authorities.[3] In contrast to more traditional and conservative American publishing companies, often located in Boston, Boni & Liveright was located in New York. They introduced to American readers many great European authors such as Checkhov, Dostoyevsky, Ibsen, Nietsche, Tolstoy, H. G. Wells, and Kipling.

Sources:

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/47938-robert-weil-and-the-music-of-editing.html

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/47691-norton-revives-iconic-20th-century-imprint-liveright.html

http://lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2011/06/people-etc-2/

http://www.observer.com/2011/07/robert-weil-and-star-lawrence-discuss-changes-at-norton/