Tay Hohoff
Therese von Hohoff Torrey , called Tay Hohoff , (born July 3, 1898 ; died January 5, 1974 in New York City ) was an American lecturer.
Life
Therese von Hohoff attended the Brooklyn Friends School in New York City. She was married to the architect John Edgar Welsh from 1921 to 1929, they had two children, and from 1931 to the literary agent Arthur Haviland Torrey.
She ran a literary agency with Torrey in New York. In 1942 she joined the publishing house JB Lippincott & Co. as an editor and retired there in 1973 as editor (senior vice president). Hohoff edited the authors Nicholas Delbanco , Wayne Greenhaw , Betty MacDonald , Zelda Popkin , Eugenia Price and Thomas Pynchon, among others .
She worked with Harper Lee for almost three years on her draft novel Go, Put a Guardian , the revision came out in 1960 as Who disturbs the nightingale , and the first draft in 2015. She continued to look after Lee after her worldwide success, but none came another book. Since the first draft was published, Hohoff's work as a lecturer has received special recognition.
Hohoff himself published a children's book, a biography and an autobiography.
Works (selection)
- A Ministry to Man: The life of John Lovejoy Elliott, a biography . 1959
- The Cat Who Wanted Out . Children's book. Illustrations Bogdan Grom. 1959
- Contribution to: The Author and His Audience: With a Chronology of Major Events in the Publishing History of JB Lippincott Company . 1967
- Cats And Other People . Autobiography. 1973
Web links
- Literature by and about Tay Hohoff in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Jonathan Mahler: The Invisible Hand Behind Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird," New York Times, July 13, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hope, Tay |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | from Hohoff Torrey, Therese (married name); von Hohoff, Therese (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American editor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 3, 1898 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th January 1974 |
| Place of death | New York City |