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Richard Layman

Oct 22, 2026

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was the only
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employee.
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A couple of years in, Fraser Clark went to a Detroit publisher called Frederick Ruffner, who owned what became the largest reference publishing company in the United States, Gale Research, made friends with him.
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And Fred asked Frase to do a book about authors.
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That's all.
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One book about authors.
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Brookley got hold of that idea.
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Is your specialty then literary publishing? Do you do other types of publishing?

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