[2] Beginning work in his older brother's small print shop, which he gradually transformed into a publishing house.

[1] He was the first publisher in the United States of: D. H. Lawrence's book Sons and Lovers (1913),[4] James Joyce's Dubliners (1916[5]) and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916[6]),[7] and Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio (1919).

Circa January 1918, B. W. Huebsch published the book The Poets of Modern France by Ludwig Lewisohn, A.M., Litt.D., Professor at the Ohio State University.

Beard, William Henry Chamberlin, Thomas Mann, Lewis Mumford, Bertrand Russell, Lincoln Steffens, Louis Untermeyer, Thorstein Veblen and Suzanne La Follette (the more Libertarian[11] cousin of Senator Robert M. La Follette).

[1][12] At Viking, he published numerous German-speaking authors, including: Lion Feuchtwanger, Franz Werfel (though not Werfel's later controversial Class Reunion, published by Simon & Schuster in 1929 and translated by Whittaker Chambers[13]), Arnold Zweig, and Stefan Zweig.

The "Forty-Eighters") then became constituents in the Conference for Progressive Political Action in 1922, a movement culminating in the independent candidacy of Robert LaFollete for President of the United States in 1924.

[19] Huebsch joined the League of American Writers,[20] a Popular Front group organized by the Communist Party in 1935 and disbanded in 1943.

Best worked with numerous American authors, including: Erskine Caldwell (a client of Maxim Lieber), Sheldon Cheney, Malcolm Cowley, Howard Mumford Jones, Rex Stout, Theodore Morrison, Dorothy Parker, Alexander Woollcott, Wallace Stegner, Lionel Trilling.

He also worked with many British authors, including: Graham Greene, Rebecca West, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Rumer Godden, and Iris Murdoch.

With Pascal Covici in 1943, he developed the "Viking Portable Library" and served as its general editor (75 titles of comprehensive anthologies of works by an established author, period, or subject).