Yoseloff, Thomas 1913-2007 (Thomas Young)
Yoseloff, Thomas 1913-2007 (Thomas Young)
OBITUARY NOTICE—
See index for CA sketch: Born September 8, 1913, in Sioux City, IA; died December 24, 2007. Publisher and author. Yoseloff was a book publisher for his entire career. Though he had worked briefly as a freelance reviewer of stage productions, he became the president of the publishing company of Bernard Ackerman when he was still in his twenties. He founded Beechurst Press in 1939. Yoseloff owned or operated several publishing companies over the years, including A.S. Barnes and Company, Sagamore Press, Rosemont Publishing and Printing Corporation, the University of Pennsylvania Press, and Associated University Presses. In England he acquired specialty publisher Golden Cockerell in the 1950s and was also affiliated with Tantivy Press. Yoseloff wrote the occasional book himself, including A Fellow of Infinite Jest (1945) and The Time of My Life (1979). He edited Seven Poets in Search of an Answer: A Poetic Symposium (1944), Voyage to America (1961), Comic Almanac (1963), and works by poet Aaron Kramer and magazine editor Charles Angoff. Some of Yoseloff's earliest nonfiction writings appeared under the pseudonym Thomas Young.
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Times (London, England), February 12, 2008, p. 55.