Robert Giroux - Frank Morley, who had worked in London at Faber and Faber, was the new head of Harco...

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Frank Morley, who had worked in London at Faber and Faber, was the new head of Harcourt Brace, and he hired me to start in 1940. The early years at Harcourt were wonderful. Almost my first assignment was Virginia Woolf's novel 'Between the Acts.'

Robert Giroux

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Frank Morley, der in London bei Faber und Faber gearbeitet hatte, war der neue Chef von Harcourt Brace, und er stellte mich 1940 an. Fast meine erste Aufgabe war Virginia Woolfs Roman "Between the Acts".

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