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American publisher
Eugene Reynal
Reynal, c. 1939
Born(1902-03-31)March 31, 1902
New York City
DiedMarch 20, 1968(1968-03-20) (aged 65)
New York City
OccupationPublisher
Spouse Elizabeth Young ​ ​(m. 1938; div. 1946)​

Eugene St. Rose Reynal (March 31, 1902 – March 20, 1968) was an American publisher who founded Blue Ribbon Books of Garden City, New York, and Reynal & Hitchcock (with Curtice Hitchcock) of New York City in 1933.

From 1938 to 1946, Reynal was married to Elizabeth Young, an actress who had appeared in Queen Christina with Greta Garbo. During World War II, Reynal served as a Captain in the Army Air Forces, stationed at one point in Miami Beach, Florida.

Louis Menand in The New Yorker wrote of Reynal that he "achieved immortality the bad way" by turning down the opportunity to publish The Catcher in the Rye.

References

  1. "Today's Birthdays". The News. Frederick, Maryland. March 31, 1950. p. 3. Retrieved September 29, 2021 – via newspapers.com.
  2. "Eugene Reynal". New York Daily News. March 22, 1968. p. 62. Retrieved September 29, 2021 – via newspapers.com.
  3. "Eugene St. Rose Reynal". geni.com. Retrieved September 29, 2021.
  4. American Authors and Books: 1640 to Present Day Third Revised Edition, Crown Publishers, Inc., New York. (Original Editors W. J. Burke and Will D. Howe)
  5. Randolph, Nancy (August 29, 1946). "Elizabeth Reynal Free; Her 2nd Marital Washout". New York Daily News. p. 13. Retrieved September 29, 2021 – via newspapers.com.
  6. Lambright, E. D. (August 23, 1942). "Books and Bookmen". The Tampa Tribune. p. 14. Retrieved September 29, 2021 – via newspapers.com.
  7. "Holden Caulfield at Fifty". The New Yorker. 24 September 2001.


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