They Made a Difference: 25 Book Business Changemakers
Turning the spotlight onto 25 seriously consequential individuals whose mark on the industry as we know it today is indelible.
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Turning the spotlight onto 25 seriously consequential individuals whose mark on the industry as we know it today is indelible.
A glance at the movers and shakers over a century, and some who have starred in the past 25 years (reprinted from PW's 125th Anniversary issue in July 1997)
China became part of my life when I met and married Edgar Snow. I had read Red Star Over China long before I knew the author but the years that followed were largely devoted to my acting career in New York. China was rather remote from Broadway. Through Ed, I developed close relationships with his friends and colleagues. Agnes Smedley showed me how to cook “oriental pilaf,”
Editor's note: This story was initially published on Feb. 23, 2013. Roy McKie passed away in 2015.
“Ulysses” has become a symbol for all the wrongheaded and frustrating ways we talk and think about the way art is made and received and appreciated.