By Leon Neyfakh 2/09/09 4:44pm

Random House Prevails in Battle for Diane Keaton’s Memoir

A long competition over Diane Keaton’s memoir, which compelled some of New York’s busiest editors and publishers to clear their schedules last week and fly to Los Angeles to meet the actress, drew to a close Friday night.

The winner—sorry HarperCollins, Ecco, and Little, Brown—was the flagship imprint of Random House. David Ebershoff, who Read More

By NYO Staff 7/26/99 12:00am

Modern Library Goes Casual With Scorsese, Krakauer

Is the core imprint of the Random House empire imperiled?

In April 1998, David Ebershoff, a writer with a University of Chicago M.B.A. who was a favorite son in Random House’s trade sales and marketing department, became publishing manager of the Modern Library, which Bennett Cerf bought in 1925. By August, the then-29-year-old Mr. Read More