Eugene St. Rose Reynal (March 31, 1902 – March 20, 1968)[1][2][3] was an American publisher who founded Blue Ribbon Books of Garden City, New York, and Reynal & Hitchcock (with Curtice Hitchcock) of New York City in 1933.[4]
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Died | March 20, 1968 New York City | (aged 65)
Occupation | Publisher |
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From 1938 to 1946, Reynal was married to Elizabeth Young, an actress who had appeared in Queen Christina with Greta Garbo.[5] During World War II, Reynal served as a Captain in the Army Air Forces, stationed at one point in Miami Beach, Florida.[6]
Louis Menand in The New Yorker wrote of Reynal that he "achieved immortality the bad way" by turning down the opportunity to publish The Catcher in the Rye.[7]