[1] In 1925, his friend Bennett Cerf presented with him an opportunity to buy for $200,000 the classic imprint, Modern Library, from Boni & Liveright.
[1] They increased the series' popularity, and in 1927 began publishing general trade books which they selected "at random."
It used as its logo a little house drawn by Cerf's friend and fellow Columbia alumnus Rockwell Kent.
[7] Cerf's talent in building and maintaining relationships brought contracts with such writers as William Faulkner, John O'Hara, Eugene O'Neill, James Michener, Truman Capote, Theodor Seuss Geisel, and others.
[1] In 2012, Random House published a book of collected World War II letters titled Dear Donald, Dear Bennett: The Wartime Correspondence of Donald Klopfer and Bennett Cerf.