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| | Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Obituaries / Roger W. Straus, at 87; publishing icon |
 | | Part of Germany's Georg von Holtzbrinck publishing group since 1994, Farrar, Straus and Giroux has been home to 21 Nobel laureates, 17 Pulitzer Prize winners, 23 National Book Awards winners, 16 National Book Critics Circle Awards winners, and numerous Caldecott and Newbery medalists. |
 | | Straus has published are Carlos Fuentes, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, John McPhee, Nadine Gordimer, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Susan Sontag, Joseph Brodsky, Philip Roth, Bernard Malamud, Seamus Heaney, Scott Turow, and Derek Walcott. |
 | | When he first arrived in New York City, Wolfe recalled, "I came thinking that everybody was going to be dynamic and sparkling and full of life and colorful." Instead, he found most New Yorkers merely scuffled down the sidewalk, with their heads down. |
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