While I was there, a book came out [La Question]. I got the book, took it back to America, got a hold of Richard Howard to translate it, brought the book out overnight, and we sold 10,000 copies. Just like that we became famous. Those were really exciting times in Paris. I remember you'd go to the corner café, and there were artists like Max Ernst, Giacometti, Calder, and then the writers, poets, playwrights, dramatists like Camus, Michaux, Ionesco, Dürrenmatt ... Those were the early years, when you would say "only in America" could you start a book club with only 25 bucks and move it up to 100,000 members and then start a publishing house.
In 2011, George Braziller retired at the age of 95.[9] His son Michael Braziller, of Persea Books,[10] became publisher and editorial director while George's elder son Joel Braziller became secretary-treasurer and director of permissions. With a small team they maintain the Braziller tradition with new series and a rich backlist.[6]
Braziller died in Manhattan, New York, on March 16, 2017, at the age of 101.[4]
Book series
Book series published by George Braziller have included:
↑The reference in the 2005 Brooklyn Rail interview to "May 1968" must be an error, since Braziller goes on to state that La Question came out while he was in Paris, and that book's US publication by him was also in 1958.