Blanche Knopf

Blanche Wolf button (* as Blanche Wolf on July 30, 1894 in New York; † June 4, 1966 ibid ) was an American publisher. She was CEO of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. and since 1916 wife of publisher Alfred A. Knopf, with whom she had founded the company in 1915.

Blanche button was particularly involved into English to be translated and to be published in America, European and Latin American literature. After the Second World War, it was one of the first among the more important American publishers, who was staying on the lookout for writers focus in Europe. From this point, it was also responsible for the European activities of the publisher.

Blanche button fostered the careers of many literary exceptional talents and advised them on their way to success. In Alfred A Button publishing the works of eleven Nobel Prize for Literature and eighteen Pulitzer Prize - makers appeared. Among the authors of the publisher counted eg Sigmund Freud, Albert Camus, André Gide, Jean -Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Ilya Ehrenburg or Thomas Mann - but also an important American authors such as John Updike.

For their successful promotion of French literature, she was appointed by the French Government to the Chevalier and Officier de la Légion 1960 d' Honneur in 1949. Brazil honored her with the Order of the Southern Cross.

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There is not a German writer left in Germany who is worth thinking about. - Blanche Wolf button in an interview with The New York Times after her visit to Europe, from which she returned with, among others, the autobiography of Egon Erwin Kisch on 14 July 1936.