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Alfred Harcourt (January 31, 1881, New Paltz, New York - June 20, 1954) was an American Publisher, Compiler and Founder of Harcourt, Brace & Howe in 1919.〔''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)〕 Harcourt was born in New Paltz, New York to a fruit farmer and attended the New Paltz Normal School. While at the normal school Harcourt became a member of the Delphic Fraternity.〔In a Valley Fair: A History of the State University College of Education at New Paltz, by Elizabeth Lang and Robert Lang, New York, 1960.〕 An illness at age 9 lead to his love for books and reading.〔(Alfred Harcourt )〕 Harcourt graduated from Columbia College of Columbia University in 1904 with fellow grad Donald Brace, with whom he founded a publishing company. He retired from his business due to poor health in 1941 and died in 1954 in Santa Barbara, California.〔 Harcourt's second wife, Ellen Knowles, founded the Alfred Harcourt Foundation before her death in 1984. ==References== *(The Alfred Harcourt Foundation homepage ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alfred Harcourt」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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