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Morris Harris Philipson (June 23, 1926 – November 3, 2011) was an American novelist and book publisher. Philipson was the longest-serving director in the history of the University of Chicago Press, which position he held from 1967 to 2000.[1]

Philipson was a native of

Darien, CT (1944) and received his B.A. (1949) and M.A. (1952) from the University of Chicago. He received a Ph.D. (1959) in philosophy from Columbia University. He worked for several New York publishers, including Random House, Pantheon Books, Alfred A. Knopf, and Basic Books before coming to the University of Chicago.[3]

At the University of Chicago Press, Philipson became known for large-scale scholarly projects such as The Lisle Letters (a six-volume collection of 16th-century correspondence by

Paul Ricoeur, Yves Bonnefoy, and Claude Lévi-Strauss. In 1984, Philipson was awarded the Commandeur de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French ministry of culture.[7]

In 1982, Philipson became the first director of scholarly press to win

PEN American Center's Publisher Citation.[7] He also received the Association of American Publishers
' Curtis Benjamin Award for Creative Publishing shortly before his retirement.

Philipson was the author of more than fifty articles and reviews[8] and five novels: Bourgeois Anonymous (Vanguard, 1965; Schocken, 1983), The Wallpaper Fox (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976), A Man in Charge (Simon & Schuster, 1979), Secret Understandings (Simon & Schuster, 1983), and Somebody Else's Life (Harper & Row, 1987).

Philipson was married for thirty-three years to Susan Philipson, an editor whom he met when they worked at Knopf, and who died in 1994. They had three children.[9]

Philipson died on November 3, 2011, of a heart attack in Chicago.[10]

References

  1. ^ "Philipson leaves publishing legacy after 32-year career". University of Chicago Chronicle. 1999. Retrieved 4 November 2011.
  2. ^ Vitello, Paul (10 November 2011). "Morris Philipson, Who Led the University of Chicago Press, Dies at 85". The New York Times.
  3. ^ Blades, John (19 June 1992). "A Full-court Press". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 23 June 2011.
  4. ^ D.J.R. Bruckner, "The Grand Projects", New York Times, 18 October 1981
  5. ^ "The Press where 'Least-Sellers' Often Turn Out to be 'Landmarks'", University of Chicago Magazine, Summer 1984
  6. ^ Herbert Mitgang, "Publishing: Isaac Dinesen in Chicago", New York Times, 23 September 1977
  7. ^ a b Connie Goddard, "University of Chicago Press Celebrates Its Centennial", Publishers Weekly, 25 July 1991, p. 15
  8. ^ "U of C Press' Director to Retire after 32 Years", Chicago Tribune, 25 June 1999
  9. ^ Obituary for Susan Philipson, Chicago Tribune, 1 September 1994
  10. ^ Morris Philipson, former director of University of Chicago Press, 1926-2011 Archived 2012-03-31 at the Wayback Machine

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