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Jazzmen is a book on the history of jazz. It was edited by Frederic Ramsey, Jr. and Charles Edward Smith, and was published by Harcourt, Brace & Company in 1939. It was the first jazz history book published in the United States and helped establish a story of early jazz as well as renewing interest in those forms of music and their players.
The May 1926 meeting of the directors of the American Fund for Public Service, better known as the Garland Fund, allocated $100,000 to establish the Vanguard Press. [4] The new publisher was intended to reissue left-wing classics at an affordable cost and to provide an outlet for the publication of new titles otherwise deemed "unpublishable" by the commercial press of the day. [4]
The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books. The two most popular books that year were The Grapes of Wrath , by John Steinbeck , which held on top of the list for 24 weeks, and All This and Heaven Too by Rachel Field , which was on top of the list for 14 weeks.
This category is for articles on books for children and young adults written or published in 1939. ... Pages in category "1939 children's books"
A film adaptation of the novel was produced in 1939, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara. The film differs from the book in some respects, with Francis Davey being replaced by Sir Humphrey Pengallan (Laughton). Du Maurier was not enamoured of the film. [2] [5]
It won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. It was the best-selling novel in the United States in 1938, when it sold more than 250,000 copies. It was the seventh-best seller in 1939. [2] The book has been translated into Spanish, Chinese, French, Japanese, German, Italian, Russian, and 22 other languages. [3] [4]
Charles Ray Willeford III (January 2, 1919 – March 27, 1988) was an American writer. An author of fiction, poetry, autobiography, and literary criticism. An author of fiction, poetry, autobiography, and literary criticism.
Pages in category "1939 books" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...