Donald Brace

{{Infobox person | name = Donald Brace | birth_date = {{Birth date|1881|12|27}} | birth_place = West Winfield, New York, USA | death_date = {{Death date and age|1955|09|20|1881|12|27}} | resting_place = Meeting House Green Road Cemetery, West Winfield, New York | education = Columbia College of Columbia University | occupation = Publisher | years_active = | era = | employer = | organization = | known_for = Being a co-founder of Harcourt Trade Publishers }}

'''Donald Clifford Brace''' (December 27, 1881, West Winfield, New York – September 20, 1955) was an American publisher and founder of the publishing company Harcourt, Brace & Howe in 1919.<ref>''American Authors and Books: 1640 to Present Day'' Third Revised Edition, Crown Publishers, Inc., New York. (Original Editors W. J. Burke and Will D. Howe)</ref>

Brace graduated from Columbia College of Columbia University in 1904 with fellow grad Alfred Harcourt, with whom he worked for Henry Holt and Company before founding Harcourt, Brace & Howe, along with editor Will David Howe.<ref name="CDS">{{cite news |title=Donald Brace, Former Columbian, Helped Make Spectator a Daily Forty Years Ago |url=http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19480928-01.2.12& |accessdate=13 April 2019 |volume=LXXI|issue=5 |publisher=Columbia Daily Spectator |date=28 September 1948}}</ref> After Howe left the company in 1921, the partners changed the name to Harcourt, Brace & Company. They published the works of a number of writers who became internationally renowned, including Walter Lippmann, Sinclair Lewis, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, James Thurber, George Orwell, Valentine Davies and Robert Penn Warren. Firms acquired by Harcourt, Brace include Brewer, Warren and Putnam; and Reynal & Hitchcock.<ref>{{Cite book| publisher = Gale Research Co| isbn = 978-0-8103-1724-6| pages = [https://archive.org/details/americanliterary0046unse/page/68 68]|editor1= Peter Dzwonkoski | last1 = Michaels-Katz| first1 = Carole| last2 = Hoffman| first2 = Elizabeth| title = American literary publishing houses, 1900-1980. Trade and paperback| chapter = Brewer, Warren and Putnam| location = Detroit, Mich| series = Dictionary of literary biography| date = 1986| chapter-url = https://archive.org/details/americanliterary0046unse/page/68}}</ref>

== Awards and honors == * Donald C. Brace Memorial Lecture of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A., an annual lecture given in his name

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==External links== *[https://findingaids.library.columbia.edu/ead//nnc-rb/ldpd_12414983 Donald C. Brace Papers] at the Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New York, NY

{{DEFAULTSORT:Brace, Donald Clifford}} Category:American book publishing company founders Category:Columbia College, Columbia University alumni Category:1881 births Category:1955 deaths Category:20th-century American publishers (people)