The publisher is a middleman, he calls the tune to which the whole rest of the trade dances; and he does so because he pays the piper.
Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation.
Vicente Aleixandre, Poet (1898) |
Cass Canfield, Publisher (1897) |
Alice Cary, Poet (1820) |
Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Writer (1916) |
Eugene Delacroix, Artist (1798) |
Giancarlo Esposito, Actor (1958) |
April Glaspie, Diplomat (1942) |
Kevin James, Comedian (1965) |
Curtis Jones, Musician (1968) |
Greg Laswell, Musician (1974) |
Hasil Adkins, Musician (2005) |
Lucille Ball, Comedian (1989) |
Count Basie, Musician (1984) |
Augusto Roa Bastos, Novelist (2005) |
Jill Dando, Journalist (1999) |
Celia Johnson, Actress (1982) |
Corliss Lamont, Philosopher (1995) |
David Lavender, Historian (2003) |