Gayle Feldman has written for Publishers Weekly for 40 years, including as a senior staff editor; since 1999, as U.S. correspondent for The Bookseller, she has analyzed the American book business for U.K. readers; and she has contributed features and reviews on books and culture to The New York Times, The Nation, The Daily Beast and other publications. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Times of London.

She is the author of the cancer memoir YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE YOUR MOTHER and was awarded a National Arts Journalism Program fellowship at Columbia University, through which she published BEST AND WORST OF TIMES: The Changing Business of Trade Books. The National Endowment for the Humanities has supported her work on NOTHING RANDOM with a Public Scholars award. She lives in New York City and Sag Harbor.

Books by Gayle Feldman

Nothing Random: Bennett Cerf and the Publishing House He Built

by Gayle Feldman - Biography, Nonfiction

At midcentury, everyone knew Bennett Cerf: the witty, beloved, middle-aged panelist on “What’s My Line?” whom TV brought into America’s homes each week. But they didn’t know that the handsome, driven, paradoxical young man of the 1920s had vowed to become a great publisher and, a decade later, was. By then, he’d signed Eugene O’Neill, Gertrude Stein and William Faulkner, and had fought the landmark censorship case that gave Americans the freedom to read James Joyce’s ULYSSES. Using interviews with more than 200 individuals, deeply researched archival material, and letters from private collections not previously available, NOTHING RANDOM brings Bennett Cerf to vibrant life, drawing book lovers into his world, finally laying open the page on a quintessential American original.