Background
Charles was born on January 26, 1890 in New York City, New York, United States, the son of Charles and Louise Flagg Scribner.
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On the feast of the Epiphany, the visit of the Three Magi to the manger, the author takes up a new spiritual journal through a year to the next Epiphany. Those Wise Men following their Star have long held a special place in the imagination of the faithful of all ages. So too does art provide a mirror or window on history, on worlds past, on Faith. Lux Umbra Dei Light is the Shadow of God. whether the light of the Star leading the Magi, or the blinding flash of light that converted St. Paul, or the natural light all around us each day. Likewise music both sacred and secular builds a bridge between past and present as dazzling as the Golden Gate. To play or just to listen offer two ways of crossing that bridge and entering another world. It is a religious experience in the most literal sense of the word. This journey with the Magi though art and faith shapes a year as it proceeds from season to season, from Epiphany, through Lent, Easter, ordinary time, Advent, Christmas and back to Epiphany. Music, books, art, and worship quite literally tie together past, present, and future as they nourish one s spiritual life and offer glimpses of the Eternal. Exquisitely written, this unique book, a blend of art, music, literature, and faith, is a joy to read, and especially easy to digest in small daily segments.
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Charles was born on January 26, 1890 in New York City, New York, United States, the son of Charles and Louise Flagg Scribner.
Charles Scribner attended St. Paul's School, Concord (1904 - 1909), and Princeton University.
Upon graduation from Princeton in 1913 Scribner joined the family publishing firm of Charles Scribner's Sons, founded by his grandfather and Isaac Baker in 1846. He learned the business from the ground up, working for a time at the Scribner Press and then familiarizing himself with the details of distribution, editing, and advertising.
The years immediately preceding World War I were a time of artistic ferment and renewal in the United States, and Scribner was responsive to the demand for greater realism and freedom of expression in literature. Perhaps his military service in France as a first lieutenant with the Remount Service of the Quartermaster Corps strengthened his interest in the postwar writers of the Lost Generation.
On his return to the firm in 1918 he was instrumental in persuading his father to publish the first novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (1920), an expression of Jazz Age cynicism. The acceptance by Scribner and editor Maxwell Perkins of Fitzgerald and other avant-garde authors marked a turning point in the firm's history. Hitherto the house had been noted for its conservatism in matters of public taste. Scribner became secretary of the firm in 1918, vice-president in 1926, and president in 1932.
Shortly before World War II the firm acquired such notable writers as Genevieve Foster, Katherine Milhous, Marcia Brown, and Leo Politi. Reference books and scholarly works were also promoted. Scribner himself considered the Dictionary of American Biography "by far the most important thing ever done by the firm. " Begun in the 1920's while his father was still president, the twenty-volume work - prepared under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies - was carried to completion in 1937 under his supervision. A major by-product of this scholarly publishing venture was the six-volume Dictionary of American History (1940), an up-to-date and authoritative compilation that placed special emphasis upon the then neglected field of American social history.
Elected president of the Princeton University Press in 1940, Scribner presided over the dynamic growth of that institution for the next eight years. When he resigned in 1948, his son Charles Scribner IV, was named to replace him.
He died in New York City.
Under his direction Charles Scribner's Sons publishing company took risks in defense of new ideas and promoted cultural change. In addition to its avant-garde offerings the firm continued to publish a variety of books in all fields. Scribner, like his father, was intensely interested in copyright problems and served on the copyright committee of the American Book Publishers Council. He also continued the family tradition of assisting the Princeton University Press, a nonprofit corporation that his father had helped establish to produce important scholarly books that were too specialized or expensive to attract commercial publishers.
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In his personal relationships Scribner was pleasant and unpretentious, displaying little of the autocratic temper that led employees to describe his father as "the czar. "
On May 26, 1915, Scribner married Vera Gordon Bloodgood, the daughter of a Manhattan broker; they had two children.
