A publisher's career with the University of California Press, the Sierra Club, and the California Native Plant Society
By: August Frugé ; with an introduction by Harlan Kessel. Interviewed by Suzanne B. Riess, 1997-1998. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Frugé, Susan.; Riess, Suzanne B.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 2001
Subjects: Brower, David Ross, 1912-2000.; University of California Press.; Sierra Club. Publications Committee.; Sierra Club -- Publishing.; California Native Plant Society.; Association of American University Presses.; Publishers and publishing -- California.; Scholarly publishing -- California -- Berkeley -- History.
Other titles: University history series.
Description: Background in Idaho and Oregon, education at Stanford University; early jobs, UC Berkeley librarianship degree, 1937; marriage, library work in Sacramento; University of California Press: 1940s, under Sam Farquhar, early mandate; under Frugé, Editorial Committee meetings, sponsoring editors, new directions, paperback publication; UCLA office of the Press; finances, inventory, Board of Control, marketing; comments on George Stewart, Max Yavno, Ansel Adams, Franklin Murphy, others; American Association of University Presses and university publishing in Latin America, 1950s, Centro Interamericano de Libros Académicos; Sierra Club: Publications Committee, 1960s, and connections with UC Press, David Brower, creating Exhibit Format Books, internal conflicts. Includes a joint interview with Susan Frugé (1926-2001) on the California Native Plant Society, CNPS activists and field trips, plant sales, Fremontia, August's role in CNPS, Jim Roof, Ledyard Stebbins and others. Appendices include extensive correspondence, and writings by Frugé.

includes compact disc recording of Susan Frugé memorial service, March 4, 2001.

includes documents relating to August Frugé publishing career and the Sierra Club.