Letter from Richard L. Simon to Max Geffen.

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Title

Letter from Richard L. Simon to Max Geffen.

Date

January 18, 1946.

Description

The Council on Books in Wartime met annually at the Hotel Ambassador to review the achievements of the past year and discuss goals for the year ahead. In this letter, Richard Simon, of Simon & Schuster, invites Max Geffen, publisher of Omnibook magazine, to the 1946 luncheon. Guests included Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist and ASE author, Bill Mauldin. The Council itself was a veritable who’s who of the publishing industry.

Source

From the Collection of Molly Guptill Manning