Chatto & Windus "Weir of Hermiston" (1896) by Robert Louis Stevenson, and the first translation into English of Marcel Proust's novel "À la recherche du temps perdu" ("Remembrance of Things Past", C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, 1922), amongst others. In 1946, the company took over the running of the Hogarth Press, founded in 1917 by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Active as an independent publishing house until 1969, when it merged with Jonathan Cape, it published broadly in the field of literature, including novels and poetry. It is not connected, except in the loosest historical fashion, with Pickering & Chatto Publishers. Norah Smallwood was appointed to
The Wolfe Pack The Wolfe Pack The Wolfe Pack is a literary society devoted to Rex Stout's character Nero Wolfe. As publicity for William S. Baring-Gould's book "Nero Wolfe of West 35th Street", Viking Press ran a "Mammoth New Nero Wolfe Contest" in "The New York Times Book Review". Four years later, John McAleer began working on what would become "Rex Stout: A Biography". McAleer obtained the contest mailing list and began correspondence with one of the fans, Ellen Krieger. Krieger desired to form a literary society devoted to Wolfe and McAleer provided the name: The Wolfe Pack. The first Nero Wolfe dinner