About Horace Manges
Lived 1898 – 1986 (aged 87–88). Horace Manges was an American lawyer.
Horace S. Manges (1898 – February 11, 1986) was an American lawyer, specializing in copyright law. He was a founding partner of Weil, Gotshal & Manges in 1931.
A native of New York City, Manges graduated from Columbia College and Columbia Law School. He became an authority on copyright law and served as a counsel to the American Book Publishers Council from 1953 to 1970. and also represented many authors, including William Faulkner, John O'Hara, Truman Capote, Whittaker Chambers, and James Jones. and James H. Manges.
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American lawyer
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Horace Manges was born in 1898 in New York City.
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Horace Manges died on 11 February 1986 in Manhattan.
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