Bennett Cerf

United States. Cerf and Donald Klopfer bought the Modern Library reprint series in 1925, used its steady income to found Random House in 1927, and in 1933 arranged a deliberate test case that won the right to publish Ulysses legally in America. Random House grew from a small independent into a major house, publishing Faulkner and Dr Seuss, before its sale to RCA in 1965 began the era of corporate publishing.