Edwin Seaver

Edwin Seaver (1900–1987) was a 20th-century American publisher, writer, editor, and critic, best known for his work with left-wing magazines (including the Call, Leader, New Masses) and newspapers (Daily Worker), as well as book publishing houses including Book-of-the-Month Club, Little, Brown and Company, and George Braziller.

Background

Edwin Seaver was born in 1900 in Washington, DC, to a Jewish family and raised in Philadelphia. He attended a New England prep school and then Harvard College.

He was a sponsor of the Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace, held in New York City, March 25–27, 1949, arranged by the National Council of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions as follow-up to an earlier gathering, the World Congress of Intellectuals in Defense of Peace, held in Poland, August 25–28, 1948.

Seaver was interviewed during the McCarthy hearings but never confirmed as a Communist. All in the racket, with William E. Weeks, introduced by Arthur Garfield Hays (1930) Between the hammer and the anvil (1937) World's great love novels (1944) Cross section: a collection of new American writing (1944–1948) Pageant of American humor (1948) "Only an Editor", New York Review of Books (August 24, 1967) So far, so good: recollections of a life in publishing (preface by Angus Cameron) (1986)