| Charles Scribner IV | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 13, 1921 Quogue, New York |
| Died | November 10, 1995 (aged 74) Mary Manning Walsh Nursing Home Manhattan |
| Education | St. Paul's School Princeton University (1943) |
| Employer | Charles Scribner's Sons |
| Spouse(s) | Joan Sunderland |
| Children | Charles Scribner V (b. 1951) Blair Sunderland Scribner John Scribner |
| Parents | Vera Gordon Bloodgood Charles Scribner III |
| Relatives | Charles Scribner II, grandfather Charles Scribner I, greatgrandfather |
Charles Scribner IV (July 13, 1921 - November 11, 1995), also known as Charles Scribner, Jr.,[1] was the head of the Charles Scribner's Sons publishing company.
Biography
He was born in Quogue, New York on July 13, 1921, and was raised in Far Hills, New Jersey to Vera Gordon Bloodgood and Charles Scribner III. He attended St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, and to receive his A.B. degree summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1943.[2] He was a Navy cryptanalyst during World War II and the Korean War. He succeeded his father, Charles Scribner III, in 1952 as chief of Charles Scribner's Sons, which had been founded by his great-grandfather, Charles Scribner I, in 1846. He oversaw the operations until 1984, when the company was bought out by Macmillan Publishing. He was a trustee of Princeton University from 1969 to 1979, and he was president of the Princeton University Press from 1957 to 1968, a trustee of the press from 1949 to 1981 and president of the American Book Publishers Council, from 1966 to 1968.[3][4]
Titles at Charles Scribner's Sons
- President from 1952 to 1977[5]
- Chairman in 1977 and again in 1978
- Chairman of the Scribner Book Companies, the holding company, from 1978 to 1986
References
- ^ His father also called himself "Charles Scribner, Jr.", and registered for the World War I draft under that name.
- ^ "Archives of Charles Scribner's Sons". Princeton University. http://libweb.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/aids/scribner/. Retrieved 2008-07-25. "Charles Scribner, 1821-1871 (Princeton Class of 1840), Charles Scribner, 1854-1930 (Princeton Class of 1875), Arthur Hawley Scribner, 1859-1932 (Princeton Class of 1881), Charles Scribner, 1890-1952 (Princeton Class of 1913), Charles Scribner, 1921-1995 (Princeton Class of 1943), Charles Scribner, 1951- (Princeton Class of 1973)"
- ^ "Charles Scribner Jr., Who Headed Publishing Company, Dies at 74". New York Times. November 13, 1995. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F03E4DB1539F930A25752C1A963958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all. Retrieved 2008-07-24. "Charles Scribner Jr., the longtime head of the Charles Scribner's Sons book publishing company, died on Saturday at the Mary Manning Walsh nursing home on York Avenue in Manhattan. He was 74 and lived on the Upper East Side of Manhattan for half a century. The cause was pneumonia, and he had suffered for a decade from a degenerative neurological disorder, said his son Charles Scribner 3d."
- ^ "Charles Scribner, Jr. (13 July 1921-11 November 1995)". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. http://www.jstor.org/pss/987306. Retrieved 2008-07-24.
- ^ "Succeeds His Father As Head of Scribner's". New York Times. April 22, 1952. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10E12FC385F177B93C0AB178FD85F468585F9. Retrieved 2008-07-24. "Charles Scribners Sons announced yesterday the election of Charles Scribner Jr. as president to succeed his father, ..."
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