B. W. Huebsch Benjamin W. Huebsch , often known as Ben Huebsch , was an American publisher in New York City in the early 20th century .Background Huebsch was the son of Rabbi Adolphus Huebsch, who had immigrated to the US from Hungary in 1866 and died in New York , 1884. He played violin and studied under composer and pianist Sam Franko .Career Beginning work in his older brother's small print shop , which he gradually transformed into a publishing house.B. W. Huebsch (1900–1924) In 1900, Huebsch established the publishing house B. W Huebsch. 's Dubliners and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man , and Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio . He also published Georges Sorel's Réflexions sur la violence as Reflections on Violence , translated by T. E. Hulme and published by Huebsch in 1914. Circa January 1918 , B. W. Huebsch published the book The Poets of Modern France by Ludwig Lewisohn , A.M., Litt.D., Professor at the Ohio State University . This is a translation of major French poets into English. Quoting from the Preface: "In every age the critical conservatives have protested in the name of eternal principles which, alas, are not eternal at all."''The Freeman'' magazine (1920–1924) Huebsch published The Freeman magazine from 1920 to 1924. The magazine's co-editors were Francis Neilson and Albert Jay Nock . Neilson's wealthy wife financed the magazine. Contributors included: Charles A. Beard, William Henry Chamberlin , Thomas Mann , Lewis Mumford , Bertrand Russell , Lincoln Steffens , Louis Untermeyer , Thorstein Veblen and Suzanne La Follette .In 1925 he merged his publishing house with the Viking Press, where he worked as an editor and vice president. At Viking, he published numerous German authors, including: Lion Feuchtwanger , Franz Werfel , Arnold Zweig , and Stefan Zweig . Further authors he published included: Irwin Edman , Rumer Godden , William White , Patrick White .Associations Huebsch was a member of the Henry Ford Peace Plan Commission . He was a signatory member of the Committee of Forty-Eight in 1919. then became constituents in the Conference for Progressive Political Action in 1922, a movement culminating in the independent candidacy of Robert LaFollete for President of the United States in 1924. He may have been a communist, as some have stated. Diana Trilling wrote in her memoir The Beginning of the Journey that Huebsch refused to ever republish her husband Lionel Trilling's only novel, The Middle of the Journey because he was a communist. Whittaker Chambers: A Biography claims "Unbeknownst to Trilling, Viking's publisher Ben Huebsch was a Communist and had quietly offered his services to the Hiss defense", based on an unsigned memo dated January 27, 1949, from Meyer Zeligs , further cited by Twilight of the Intellectuals In 1934, Huebsch did help celebrate the tenth anniversary of Alexander Trachtenberg's International Publishers , the official publisher for the CPUSA—along with other publishers, including Bennet Cerf of Random House , Alfred Knopf of Knopf Publishing , W. W. Norton of W. W. Norton & Company , John Chamberlain of The New York Times , and Lewis Gannett of the Herald Tribune . Huebsch joined the League of American Writers , a Popular Front group organized by the Communist Party in 1935 and disbanded in 1943. He was a long-time member of P.E.N. and served on numerous boards there. He began serving as a board member of the American Civil Liberties Union upon its founding by Roger Nash Baldwin and served as its treasurer from 1926 until his death in 1964. He represented the book industry on a U.S. National Committee for Unesco in 1949. He helped establish the National Association of Book Publishers .Personal and death In 1920, Huebsch married Alfhild Lamm. Huebsch had a close relationship with James Joyce , documented in correspondence. He died in London on August 7, 1964.Awards Huebsch's papers are archived at the Library of Congress , with documentation completed in 2013. It contains correspondence with an extraordinary range of writers and intellectuals.Marshall A. Best started as apprentice to Huebsch at B.W. Huebsch in 1923, right after graduating from Harvard University , continued with Huebsch at Viking Press in 1925, became one of Viking's chief editors and eventually chairman of its executive committee. Best worked with numerous American authors , including: Erskine Caldwell , Sheldon Cheney , Malcolm Cowley , Howard Mumford Jones , Rex Stout , Theodore Morrison , Dorothy Parker , Alexander Woollcott , Wallace Stegner , Lionel Trilling . He also worked with many British authors, including: Graham Greene , Rebecca West , Sylvia Townsend Warner , Rumer Godden, and Iris Murdoch . Other authors include R.K. Narayan of India and Patrick White of Australia. With Pascal Covici in 1943, he developed the "Viking Portable Library" and served as its general editor. He also served as treasurer of the American P.E.N. Center. During WWII, he served on the Council on Books in Wartime and the Armed Services Editions .
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