Donald Brace

Donald Brace
Born(1881-12-27)December 27, 1881
West Winfield, New York, USA
DiedSeptember 20, 1955(1955-09-20) (aged 73)
Resting placeMeeting House Green Road Cemetery, West Winfield, New York
EducationColumbia College of Columbia University
OccupationPublisher
Known forBeing a co-founder of Harcourt Trade Publishers

Donald Clifford Brace (December 27, 1881, West Winfield, New York – September 20, 1955) was an American publisher and founder of the publishing company Harcourt, Brace & Howe in 1919.[1]

Brace graduated from Columbia College of Columbia University in 1904 with fellow grad Alfred Harcourt, with whom he worked for Henry Holt and Company before founding Harcourt, Brace & Howe, along with editor Will David Howe.[2] After Howe left the company in 1921, the partners changed the name to Harcourt, Brace & Company. They published the works of a number of writers who became internationally renowned, including Walter Lippmann, Sinclair Lewis, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, James Thurber, George Orwell, Valentine Davies and Robert Penn Warren. Firms acquired by Harcourt, Brace include Brewer, Warren and Putnam; and Reynal & Hitchcock.[3]

Awards and honors

References

  1. ^ American Authors and Books: 1640 to Present Day Third Revised Edition, Crown Publishers, Inc., New York. (Original Editors W. J. Burke and Will D. Howe)
  2. ^ "Donald Brace, Former Columbian, Helped Make Spectator a Daily Forty Years Ago". Vol. LXXI, no. 5. Columbia Daily Spectator. 28 September 1948. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
  3. ^ Michaels-Katz, Carole; Hoffman, Elizabeth (1986). "Brewer, Warren and Putnam". In Peter Dzwonkoski (ed.). American literary publishing houses, 1900-1980. Trade and paperback. Dictionary of literary biography. Detroit, Mich: Gale Research Co. pp. 68. ISBN 978-0-8103-1724-6.


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