- Independent and self-taught book publisher. Among his early clients: Norman Mailer, Arthur Miller, Orhan Pamuk, and Claude Simon.
- Retired at age 95, his company is now run by his sons.
- He and his wife, Marsha, founded George Braziller Inc. in 1955. Their first success was a translation of a memoir about the French conflict with Algeria; Jean-Paul Sartre wrote the introduction. They published one of the first major books on Vietnam, "365 Days" by Ronald Glasser.
- He dropped out of school after the 10th grade. He worked for a traveling salesman and as a stock clerk for an overstock book company. In 1941, he started the Book Find Club, which sold inexpensive books. He enlisted in the Army and was stationed in Europe during WWII. After the war, he resumed work with the Book Find Club, which Marsha had been running in his absence. Its membership had risen to tens of thousands under her management.
- George Braziller was an American book publisher and the founder of George Braziller, Inc., a firm known for its literary and artistic books and its publication of foreign authors.(Wikipedia).
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