RA Collection: People and Organisations
Publisher in New York. Robert K. Haas (1890–1964), one-time Book-of-the-Month Club director, acquired Little Leather Library Corporation in the early 1920s, renamed it Robert K. Haas, Inc., and concluded the Little Leather Library new issues in 1925. Harrison Smith (1888-1971) founded the firm Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith in 1929, and went on to become a partner at Random House and an editor at Doubleday Doran & Company. From 1938 until 1966 he was president and associate editor of the Saturday Review of Literature. Smith wrote extensively on topics in American Literature, and on issues relating to working women and feminism after the Second World War. In 1952 he edited From Main Street to Stockholm, a volume of Sinclair Lewis correspondence.