Catharine Carver | |
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Born | Catharine DeFrance Carver September 17, 1921 Cambridge, Ohio, United States |
Died | November 11, 1997 Westminster, London, England | (aged 76)
Citizenship | United States (birth), United Kingdom (naturalized) |
Alma mater | |
Occupation | Publisher's editor |
Catharine DeFrance Carver (September 17, 1921 – November 11, 1997) was an American-British publisher's editor who worked from the 1940s to the 1990s. She worked for Reynal & Hitchcock, Harcourt Brace, Viking Press, J. B. Lippincott & Co., and The New Yorker in the United States before deciding to severe all ties with the United States and went to England in the 1960s. Carver went on to be employed by Chatto & Windus, John Murray, Oxford University Press, Victor Gollancz and Yale University Press among other publishers.