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Cerf

American  
[surf] / sɜrf /

noun

  1. Bennett (Alfred), 1898–1971, U.S. book publisher, editor, and writer.


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They had launched themselves in business two years earlier by acquiring the Modern Library, a line of affordable reprints, from a struggling firm where Cerf had worked.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

He became so famous that at least one Random House book featured a blurb from Cerf himself.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

Norton, Cerf didn’t put his name on the spine but, as Ms. Feldman shows, he nevertheless made his persona inseparable from his company.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

He came away impressed from an early trip to the U.S.S.R., where he said he was “the last Cerf in Russia,” but was a vocal opponent of censorship.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

"I'm not sore. Senlis is a good place and we can stay at the Grand Cerf and take a hike in the woods and come home."

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

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