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Modern Library

The Modern Library is an American book publishing imprint and formerly the parent company of Random House. Founded in 1917 by Albert Boni and Horace Liveright as an imprint of their publishing company Boni & Liveright, Modern Library became an independent publishing company in 1925 when Boni & Liveright sold it to Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. Random House began in 1927 as a subsidiary of the Modern Library and eventually overtook its parent company, with Modern Library becoming an imprint of Random House.[1]

Parent company

Random House

1917

Albert Boni, Horace Liveright

United States

New York City, New York

Books

modernlibrary.com

Lise Jaillant, (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2014)

Modernism, Middlebrow and the Literary Canon - the Modern Library Series

Gordon B. Neavill, “The Modern Library Series: Format and Design, 1917-1977,” Printing History 1 (1979): 26-37.

Gordon B. Neavill, “The Modern Library Series and American Cultural Life,” Journal of Library History 16 (Spring 1981): 241-52.

Gordon B. Neavill, “Publishing in Wartime: The Modern Library Series during the Second World War,” Library Trends 55 (Winter 2007): 583-96.

Gordon B. Neavill, “Canonicity, Reprint Publishing, and Copyright,” in The Culture of the Publisher’s Series, vol. 1: Authors, Publishers and the Shaping of Taste, edited by John Spiers (Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), pp. 88–105.

Jay Satterfield, The World's Best Books": Taste, Culture, and the Modern Library (, 2002).

University of Massachusetts Press

Official website

Best Books Modern Library

CNN - 100 best novels list draws heavy dose of criticism

Collecting the Modern Library

History of the Modern Library (speech) by Henry Toledano

On the Trail of the Torch Bearer: An Interview with Henry Toledano

On the Trail of the Torch Bearer: An Interview with Scot Kamins