The story of the legendary Random House founder, whose seemingly charmed life at the apogee of the American Century afforded him a front-row seat to literary and cultural history in the making.
This cinematic biography of Random House founder Bennett Cerf from longtime PW writer Feldman (You Don’t Have to Be Your Mother) teems with a star-studded cast including Truman Capote, James Joyce, Alfred Knopf, Ayn Rand, and Dick Simon ... Drawing on Cerf’s personal archive, as well those of writers he worked with, and more than 200 interviews, Feldman paints a candid portrait of one of the giants of modern publishing, who emerges as a charming, humorous man who was open to 'many worlds, high and low, mass and class' and committed to his authors. This is monumental.
