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Bennett Cerf | | Birth Date: |
May 25, 1898 | | Death Date: |
August 27, 1971 | | Place of Birth: |
New York, New York, United States | | Place of Death: |
Mount Kisco, New York, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
publisher, television performer, writer |
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Biography of Bennett Cerf
1,866 words, approx. 6 pages
 Bennett Cerf (1898-1971) helped to shape the American publishing business into what it is today. A writer and television personality, Cerf was also an active editor and enthusiastic promoter of the writers published by his company, Random House. In the...


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Bennett Cerf Information
989 words, approx. 3 pages
 Bennett Alfred Cerf (May 25, 1898 - August 27, 1971) was a publisher and co-founder of Random House, also known for his own compilations of jokes and puns, for regular personal appearances lecturing across the United States, and for his television...




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 The New York Observer
Cerfs Out, Sheiks In on East 62nd Street
11/14/2007: 278 words, approx. 1 pages It’s official—the era of the Cerf family on East 62nd Street has come to an end. The Capote, Faulkner and Sinatra dinner parties from the family’s first generation, the impromptu meetings for the National Lampoon projects from the second, are all memories of the...
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 The New York Observer
Wendy\'d5s Warren
2/11/2007: 1,352 words, approx. 5 pages It’s been one year since the playwright Wendy Wasserstein died at the age of 55, and her old apartment, on the 11th floor of 75 Central Park West, has now been sold for $5.22 million. “It was a pretty place to be,” said playwright Chris...
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 The New York Observer
TEST: That Gal From Speed Drives Truman, Take 2
10/22/2006: 1,952 words, approx. 7 pages They gave the Oscar to the wrong Truman Capote. I do not begrudge the versatile, popular Philip Seymour Hoffman his Oscar for playing the tiny terror in Capote, but he was doing an impression. In Infamous, the second movie about the tortures that the literary...
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 The New York Observer
TEST: That Gal From Speed Drives Truman, Take 2
10/22/2006: 1,952 words, approx. 7 pages They gave the Oscar to the wrong Truman Capote. I do not begrudge the versatile, popular Philip Seymour Hoffman his Oscar for playing the tiny terror in Capote, but he was doing an impression. In Infamous, the second movie about the tortures that the literary...


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