Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Cerf, Bennett
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
- Cerf, Bennett, 1898-1971
Other form(s) of name
- Bennett Cerf
- Bennett Alfred Cerf
- Cerf, Bennett Alfred
- Cerf, Bennett A.
- Bennett A. Cerf
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1898-1971
History
Humorist, editor and publisher, Bennett Cerf was Chairman of the Board and founder of Random House publishing house in New York. Prior to founding Random House, he had co-purchased the Modern Library series. He was a fellow graduate and editor of «Jester» at Columbia University, but many years prior to Merton's arrival. He later guest starred as a panelist on the TV show "What's My Line?". (Source: "Cerf, Bennett Alfred." «Hutchinson Encyclopedia of Biography», Copyright Helicon Publishing Limited [2000]. «Biography Reference Bank». Online. H.W. Wilson. Available: ‹http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/shared/shared_main.jhtml;jsessionid=FTJAM2QJSVQCJQA3DILSFFWADUNBIIV0?_requestid=100016› 2004/07/19.)