nov 10 2011
By PAUL VITELLO
"Morris Philipson, who steered the University of Chicago Press as it became the largest and one of the nation’s most important publishers of monumental scholarly works, modern fiction and postwar European philosophy, died on Nov. 3 in Chicago. He was 85.
The cause was a heart attack, his son Nicholas said.
As the director of the Chicago Press from 1967 to 2000, Mr. Philipson drew on his own erudition and literary taste in shepherding about 200 books a year into print.
Many became staples in the personal libraries of generations of intellectually ambitious Americans, including the works, translated from French, of Claude Lévi-Strauss, Jacques Derrida and Jean-Paul Sartre; “A Dance to the Music of Time,” Anthony Powell’s 12-volume cycle of novels; and “A River Runs Through It,” the Norman Maclean novella.
He also began publishing out-of-print works of fiction from authors including André Malraux, Isak Dinesen and Paul Scott, who wrote “The Raj Quartet,” the cycle of novels that begins with “The Jewel in the Crown...” more