biography
| name: |
Schuster, Max (Lincoln)
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pronunciation:
[shuster]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1887–1970)
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| biography:
| Publisher, born in Kalusz, Austria. In 1924, with his friend Richard Simon, he founded Simon and Schuster publishers with $2000 in joint capital. One of his contributions to the firm's early success was commissioning Will Durant to write his trend-setting popularization, The Story of Philosophy (1926). |
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