![]() At Dell, a disagreement with a colleague resulted in his leaving as Quist puts it, "The man I worked with didn't know books from cornflakes, and I said so. At Crowell-Collier and Dell, Quist was instrumental in the publication of a series of boldly reillustrated children's classics, most of which were in the public domain. ![]() Quist's initial involvement with children's book publishing began in the early 1960s with editorial positions at Crowell-Collier and Dell after a brief, but successful career as an off-Broadway actor and producer (his 1958 production of a Chekhov play won four Obie awards). Until their appearance, few books published for children had collectively raised such consistent debate and discussion, applause and criticism. Since 1966, over one hundred children's books issued from his publishing houses in New York and Paris, casting a kind of eerie, haunting shadow over the otherwise sunlit world of children's literature and the children's book publishing industry. It has now been more than twenty years since Harlin Quist published his first, curious books for children. ![]()
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