It was a reader at publisher Alfred A Knopf who made the cutting remark.

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Raised on Long Island, Ms. Friedman jumped into the publishing industry by finding work as a Dictaphone typist at Alfred A. Knopf.

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Ms. Ephron, who had leukemia, died Tuesday at a New York hospital at age 71, said her publishing company, Alfred A. Knopf.

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The Hollywood historian Neal Gabler masterfully fills the gap with his 851-page Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination (Alfred A. Knopf).

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Poetry: "Stag's Leap, " by Sharon Olds (Alfred A. Knopf), a book of unflinching poems on the author's divorce that examine love, sorrow and the limits of self-knowledge.

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They are the authors of " The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business, " from which this essay is adapted, to be published on April 23 by Alfred A. Knopf.

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