Charles Scribner III
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Charles Scribner III

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Charles Scribner III, son of book publisher Charles Scribner and figure skater Joan Sunderland Scribner, received his PhD in art history in 1977. He taught Baroque art in Princeton’s department of Art and Archaeology, then joined his father at the family publishing house Charles Scribner’s Sons, founded in 1846. With Talleyrand as his model, he remained at Scribners through three changes in ownership (Macmillan, Maxwell, and Viacom), overseeing the publication of its literary classics. He was a commentator for television documentaries on Edith Wharton (BBC/PBS), Fitzgerald and Hemingway (A&E Biography). As an art historian, Scribner has lectured widely on Baroque art at universities and museums, including the Metropolitan, National Gallery, Getty, Frick, and Morgan Library. For Rubens’s 400th anniversary in 1977 he made a television program on Rubens’s Eucharist tapestries (PBS), the subject of his first book The Triumph of the Eucharist (UMI Research Press, 1982). His monographs on Rubens (1989) and Bernini (1991) were published by Abrams in its Masters of Art series, followed by his books on art and faith--The Shadow of God (Doubleday, 2006), Home by Another Route (Paulist Press, 2016), and Sacred Muse: A Preface to Christian Art & Music (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)--and most recently his biography and publishing history Scribners: Five Generations in Publishing (Lyons Press, 2023). Married to Ritchie Markoe Scribner, an artist, he remains rooted to his lifelong zip code in New York City. His webpage is: www.charlesscribner.com
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