Curtice Nelson Hitchcock (March 4, 1892 in
Pittsford, Vermont
Pittsford is a town in Rutland County, Vermont, United States. As of the 2020 census, the town population was 2,862. Named for William Pitt, it has two picket forts used in the American Revolutionary War.
History
Pittsford was first settled as ...
– May 3, 1946), was an American publisher and in 1933 founded
Reynal & Hitchcock
Reynal and Hitchcock was a publishing company in New York City. Founded in 1933 by Eugene Reynal and Curtice Hitchcock, in 1948 it was absorbed by Harcourt, Brace.'' American Authors and Books: 1640 to Present Day'' Third Revised Edition, Crow ...
of
New York, New York
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on New York Harbor, one of the world's largest natural harb ...
.
['' 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)] He founded the firm with Eugene Reynal.
He received an A.B. degree from the University of Vermont in 1913.
He was a reporter for the New York Times in the period 1915–1917.
He served in World War I.
Over the period 1920–1923, he taught history and economics at the University of Chicago.
He worked for Macmilan Company from 1924 to 1931, and for the Century Company from 1932 to 1933.
As a publisher, he held liberal viewpoints.
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1892 births
1946 deaths
American publishers (people)
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