7/6/2023 0 Comments Het Achterhuis by Anne FrankFive years after the book was first published in the Netherlands, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl was launched in a modest edition of 5,000 copies.ĭoubleday did not hold high expectations and hardly spent any money on additional advertising. The publication of Anne's diary in America in 1952 had a cautious start. After the manuscript had been turned down by 10 publishers, Doubleday publishers decided to acquire the rights. Otto had a hard time finding a publisher in the United States. He called Anne Frank a 'highly gifted writer’ and her diary 'a work about the unfolding of the nature of a young girl absolutely pure in candor and at the same time in delicacy.’ In 1950, after reading the French edition, Meyer Levin first wrote about Het Achterhuis in an article on 'the attitude of American publishers towards books of Jewish content' for Congress Weekly magazine. Success in the US after review in The New York Times (1952)
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