Artists & Authors: A Life in Good Company

Artists & Authors: A Life in Good Company - Hardcover

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Artists & Authors: A Life in Good Company - Hardcover

Artists & Authors: A Life in Good Company - Hardcover

by Charles Scribner III
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Book Overview

Join a literary insider for a behind-the-scenes tour of art heists, opera icons, and the golden age of publishing.

From the author of Scribners: Five Generations in Publishing comes this new collection of personal essays reflecting on the past fifty years of his pursuits and passions in literature, art, and music. Beginning with a memoir of his father's tutelage through letters to a young son away at school, it moves along to his "dual professions" on parallel tracks--book publishing and art history.

Behind-the-scenes stories of famous Scribner authors F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe give way to the section on Scribner's forte, the art of the Baroque masters: a murderous Caravaggio and the two tycoons Rubens and Bernini.

From his role in a sting operation to recover a stolen Rubens painting on Miami Beach to his personal profiles of three luminous sopranos--Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Frederica von Stade, and Mary Costa--Scribner shares a fascinating peek into the life and loves of a Renaissance man.
ISBN9781493093632
Author Charles Scribner III
PublisherLyons Press
GenreBiography and Literature
FormatHardcover
PublishedFebruary 2026
LanguageENG- English
Pages200
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Charles Scribner III

Charles Scribner III received his PhD in art history from Princeton University in 1977. He taught Baroque art in Princeton's department of Art and Archaeology, where he later served on its advisory council, and joined his father at the family publishing house, Charles Scribner's Sons. With Talleyrand as his model, he remained at Scribners through three changes in ownership (Macmillan, Maxwell, and Viacom), overseeing the publication of its literary classics. He was a commentator for television documentaries on Edith Wharton (BBC/PBS), Fitzgerald and Hemingway (A&E Biography).

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