{{Short description|American publisher (1902–1968)}} {{Infobox person | name = Eugene Reynal | image = Eugene_Reynal.jpeg | alt = | caption = Reynal, c. 1939 | birth_name = Eugene St. Rose Reynal | birth_date = {{Birth date|1902|03|31}} | birth_place = New York City, United States | death_date = {{Death date and age|1968|03|20|1902|03|31}} | death_place = New York City, United States | occupation = Publisher | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = | spouse = {{marriage|Elizabeth Young|1938|1946|reason=divorced}} }} '''Eugene St. Rose Reynal''' (March 31, 1902 – March 20, 1968)<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/86174737/todays-birthdays/ |title=Today's Birthdays |newspaper=The News |location=Frederick, Maryland |page=3 |date=March 31, 1950 |access-date=September 29, 2021 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/86174465/eugene-reynal/ |title=Eugene Reynal |newspaper=New York Daily News |page=62 |date=March 22, 1968 |access-date=September 29, 2021 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.geni.com/people/Eugene-Reynal/6000000042128792807 |title=Eugene St. Rose Reynal |website=geni.com |access-date=September 29, 2021}}</ref> 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.<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>
From 1938 to 1946, Reynal was married to Elizabeth Young, an actress who had appeared in the 1933 film ''Queen Christina'' with Greta Garbo.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/86175193/elizabeth-reynal-free-her-2nd-marital-w/ |title=Elizabeth Reynal Free; Her 2nd Marital Washout |first=Nancy |last=Randolph |newspaper=New York Daily News |page=13 |date=August 29, 1946 |access-date=September 29, 2021 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref> During World War II, Reynal served as a Captain in the Army Air Forces, stationed at one point in Miami Beach, Florida.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/86175372/books-and-bookmen/ |title=Books and Bookmen |first=E. D. |last=Lambright |newspaper=The Tampa Tribune |page=14 |date=August 23, 1942 |access-date=September 29, 2021 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref>
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''.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/archive/2001/10/01/011001fa_FACT3?currentPage=all|title=Holden Caulfield at Fifty|magazine=The New Yorker|first=Louis|last=Menand|date=24 September 2001}}</ref>
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