Hiram Haydn

Hiram Haydn (died 2 December 1973) was an American author and editor. He was editor in chief at Random House before leaving to help establish Atheneum Publishing.^[1] He also edited The American Scholar.^[2]

Among the writers he worked for as editor were William Goldman, William Styron and Norman Mailer.

Select novels

• By Nature Free (1943)
• Manhattan Furlough (1945)
• The Time is Noon (1948)
• The Hands of Esau (1962)
• Report from the Red Windmill (1967)

References

1. "Hiram Haydn Leaves Atheneum To Become Harcourt Associate" by HARRY GILROYAUG New York Times 15 August 1964
2. An Interview with Hiram Haydn by JOHN O'BRIEN and Hiram Haydn, The American Scholar, Vol. 43, No. 2 (Spring, 1974), pp. 199-222