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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Acquires Long-Awaited Biography of Rival’s Chic Matriarch Blanche Knopf

On Monday Farrar, Straus and Giroux acquired a biography of Blanche Knopf—the wife of Alfred A. Knopf, founder and namesake of Random House’s rival literary imprint—by Laura Claridge.

“What’s fascinating about it is this writer has access to a tremendous cache of papers,” FSG executive editor Ileene Smith told The Observer yesterday.

Although she was Read More