"In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can." - Michael Korda.
"์ฑ๊ณตํ๊ธฐ ์ํด์๋ ํ ์ ์๋ค๋ ํ์ ์ ๊ฐ์ ธ์ผ ํ๋ค." - ๋ง์ดํด ์ฝ๋ค
Michael Korda: A Literary Titan's Journey
๋ง์ดํด ์ฝ๋ค: ๋ฌธํ๊ณ ๊ฑฐ์ฅ์ ์ฌ์
Michael Korda, born on October 8, 1933, in London, England, is a prolific author, editor, and publishing industry icon who has left an indelible mark on the world of literature. With a career spanning over six decades, Korda has worn many hats - from a bestselling author to the editor-in-chief of one of the most prestigious publishing houses in the world.
๋ง์ดํด ์ฝ๋ค๋ 1933๋ 10์ 8์ผ ์๊ตญ ๋ฐ๋์์ ํ์ด๋ ๋ค์ ์๊ฐ์ด์ ํธ์ง์, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ถํ ์ ๊ณ์ ์์ด์ฝ์ผ๋ก, ๋ฌธํ๊ณ์ ์ง์ธ ์ ์๋ ์กฑ์ ์ ๋จ๊ฒผ์ต๋๋ค. 60๋ ์ด ๋๋ ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ ๋์ ์ฝ๋ค๋ ๋ฒ ์คํธ์ ๋ฌ ์๊ฐ์์๋ถํฐ ์ธ๊ณ์์ ๊ฐ์ฅ ๋ช ๋ง ๋์ ์ถํ์ฌ ์ค ํ๋์ ํธ์ง์ฅ์ ์ด๋ฅด๊ธฐ๊น์ง ๋ค์ํ ์ญํ ์ ์ํํด์์ต๋๋ค.
Early Life and Career
์ด๊ธฐ ์ํ๊ณผ ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ
Korda's journey in the publishing world began in 1958 when he joined Simon & Schuster as an editorial assistant. His early days were filled with what he called "donkeywork," but it was during this time that he learned the crucial elements of success in the publishing industry: hard work, longevity, and an understanding of the reading public's desires.
์ฝ๋ค์ ์ถํ๊ณ ์ฌ์ ์ 1958๋ ์ฌ์ด๋จผ ์ค ์์คํฐ์ ํธ์ง ๋ณด์กฐ๋ก ์ ์ฌํ๋ฉด์ ์์๋์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๊ธฐ์๋ ๊ทธ๊ฐ "๋ ธ์ ์ผ"์ด๋ผ๊ณ ๋ถ๋ฅด๋ ์ผ๋ค๋ก ๊ฐ๋ ์ฐผ์ง๋ง, ์ด ์๊ธฐ์ ๊ทธ๋ ์ถํ ์ ๊ณ์์ ์ฑ๊ณตํ๊ธฐ ์ํ ์ค์ํ ์์๋ค์ ๋ฐฐ์ ์ต๋๋ค: ์ด์ฌํ ์ผํ๋ ๊ฒ, ์ค๋ ๋ฒํฐ๋ ๊ฒ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ ์๋ค์ ์๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์ดํดํ๋ ๊ฒ.
As he climbed the ranks at Simon & Schuster, Korda demonstrated a unique ability to edit both fiction and non-fiction works. His versatility allowed him to work on a wide range of subjects, from mathematics and philosophy to memoirs and fiction.
์ฌ์ด๋จผ ์ค ์์คํฐ์์ ์น์ง์ ๊ฑฐ๋ญํ๋ฉด์, ์ฝ๋ค๋ ์์ค๊ณผ ๋ ผํฝ์ ์ํ ๋ชจ๋๋ฅผ ํธ์งํ ์ ์๋ ๋ ํนํ ๋ฅ๋ ฅ์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ์ ๋ค์ฌ๋ค๋ฅํจ์ ์ํ๊ณผ ์ฒ ํ์์๋ถํฐ ํ๊ณ ๋ก๊ณผ ์์ค์ ์ด๋ฅด๊ธฐ๊น์ง ๊ด๋ฒ์ํ ์ฃผ์ ์ ์ํ์ ๋ค๋ฃฐ ์ ์๊ฒ ํด์ฃผ์์ต๋๋ค.
Rise to Prominence
๋ช ์ฑ์ ์์น
Korda's career took a significant turn when he became the Editor-in-Chief of Simon & Schuster. In this role, he published works by high-profile writers and personalities such as William L. Shirer, Will and Ariel Durant, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan2.
์ฝ๋ค์ ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ์ ๊ทธ๊ฐ ์ฌ์ด๋จผ ์ค ์์คํฐ์ ํธ์ง์ฅ์ด ๋๋ฉด์ ์ค์ํ ์ ํ์ ์ ๋ง์ดํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ด ์ญํ ์์ ๊ทธ๋ ์๋ฆฌ์ L. ์๋ฌ, ์๊ณผ ์๋ฆฌ์ ๋๋ํธ, ๋ฆฌ์ฒ๋ ๋์จ, ๋ก๋๋ ๋ ์ด๊ฑด๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ ์ ๋ช ์๊ฐ์ ์ธ์ฌ๋ค์ ์ํ์ ์ถํํ์ต๋๋ค2.
His keen eye for potential bestsellers and his ability to nurture talent made him a major figure in the book industry. Korda was particularly noted for pioneering bestselling novels by authors such as Jacqueline Susann and Harold Robbins, which were considered daring in the 1960s.
์ ์ฌ์ ์ธ ๋ฒ ์คํธ์ ๋ฌ๋ฅผ ์์๋ณด๋ ๊ทธ์ ์๋ฆฌํ ์๋ชฉ๊ณผ ์ฌ๋ฅ์ ์ก์ฑํ๋ ๋ฅ๋ ฅ์ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์ถํ ์ ๊ณ์ ์ฃผ์ ์ธ๋ฌผ๋ก ๋ง๋ค์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฝ๋ค๋ ํนํ 1960๋ ๋์ ๋๋ดํ๋ค๊ณ ์ฌ๊ฒจ์ก๋ ์ฌํด๋ฆฐ ์์๊ณผ ํด๋กค๋ ๋ก๋น์ค ๊ฐ์ ์๊ฐ๋ค์ ๋ฒ ์คํธ์ ๋ฌ ์์ค์ ๊ฐ์ฒํ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์ ๋ช ํฉ๋๋ค.
Korda as an Author
์๊ฐ๋ก์์ ์ฝ๋ค
While Korda's editing career was flourishing, he also embarked on his own writing journey. His first book, "Male Chauvinism! How It Works," was published in 19731. This was followed by a string of successful books, both fiction and non-fiction, that showcased his versatility as a writer.
์ฝ๋ค์ ํธ์ง ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ์ด ๊ฝํผ๋ ๋์, ๊ทธ๋ ๋ํ ์์ ์ ์งํ ์ฌ์ ์ ์์ํ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ์ ์ฒซ ๋ฒ์งธ ์ฑ ์ธ "๋จ์ฑ ์ฐ์์ฃผ์! ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์๋ํ๋๊ฐ"๋ 1973๋ ์ ์ถํ๋์์ต๋๋ค1. ์ดํ ์์ค๊ณผ ๋ ผํฝ์ ์ ์์ฐ๋ฅด๋ ์ผ๋ จ์ ์ฑ๊ณต์ ์ธ ์ฑ ๋ค์ด ์ด์ด์ก๊ณ , ์ด๋ ์๊ฐ๋ก์์ ๊ทธ์ ๋ค์ฌ๋ค๋ฅํจ์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ์์ต๋๋ค.
Some of his notable works include "Power! How to Get It, How to Use It" (1975), "Success! How Every Man and Woman Can Achieve It" (1977), and "Charmed Lives: A Family Romance" (1979). His second book, "Power!," reached the number one spot on The New York Times Bestseller list in 1975.
๊ทธ์ ์ฃผ๋ชฉํ ๋งํ ์ํ์ผ๋ก๋ "๊ถ๋ ฅ! ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์ป๊ณ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์ฌ์ฉํ๋๊ฐ" (1975), "์ฑ๊ณต! ๋ชจ๋ ๋จ๋ ๊ฐ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์ด๋ฃฐ ์ ์๋๊ฐ" (1977), "๋งคํน์ ์ธ ์ถ๋ค: ๊ฐ์กฑ ๋ก๋งจ์ค" (1979) ๋ฑ์ด ์์ต๋๋ค1. ๊ทธ์ ๋ ๋ฒ์งธ ์ฑ ์ธ "๊ถ๋ ฅ!"์ 1975๋ ๋ด์ ํ์์ค ๋ฒ ์คํธ์ ๋ฌ ๋ชฉ๋ก 1์์ ์ฌ๋์ต๋๋ค.
Historical Works and Biographies
์ญ์ฌ ์ํ๊ณผ ์ ๊ธฐ
In the 2000s, Korda turned his attention to historical works and biographies. He wrote several acclaimed books in this genre, including "Ulysses S. Grant: The Unlikely Hero" (2004), "Ike: An American Hero" (2007), and "Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia" (2010).
2000๋ ๋์ ์ฝ๋ค๋ ์ญ์ฌ ์ํ๊ณผ ์ ๊ธฐ์ ๊ด์ฌ์ ๋๋ ธ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ ์ด ์ฅ๋ฅด์์ ์ฌ๋ฌ ๊ถ์ ํธํ๋ฐ๋ ์ฑ ์ ์ผ๋๋ฐ, "์จ๋ฆฌ์์ค S. ๊ทธ๋ํธ: ์์์น ๋ชปํ ์์ " (2004), "์์ดํฌ: ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ ์์ " (2007), "์์ : ์๋ผ๋น์์ ๋ก๋ ์ค์ ์ถ๊ณผ ์ ์ค" (2010) ๋ฑ์ด ์์ต๋๋ค.
Korda's approach to historical writing was unique. He once said, "I've always wanted to write history, and it was only the accident of going to work for a book publisher in 1958 (and the need to earn a regular paycheck) that slowed me down". This passion for history is evident in the depth and detail of his historical works.
์ญ์ฌ ์ ์ ์ ๋ํ ์ฝ๋ค์ ์ ๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์์ ๋
ํนํ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ ํ๋ "๋๋ ํญ์ ์ญ์ฌ๋ฅผ ์ฐ๊ณ ์ถ์์ง๋ง, 1958๋
์ ์ถํ์ฌ์ ์ทจ์งํ ์ฐ์ฐํ ์ฌ๊ฑด(๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ๊ธ์ฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฒ์ด์ผ ํ ํ์์ฑ)์ด ๋๋ฅผ ๋ฆ์ถ์๋ค"๊ณ ๋งํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ญ์ฌ์ ๋ํ ์ด๋ฌํ ์ด์ ์ ๊ทธ์ ์ญ์ฌ ์ํ์ ๊น์ด์ ์ธ๋ถ์ฌํญ์์ ์ ๋๋ฌ๋ฉ๋๋ค.
Personal Life and Influences
๊ฐ์ธ์ ์ถ๊ณผ ์ํฅ
Korda's personal experiences have often influenced his writing. His memoir "Another Life: A Memoir of Other People" (1999) provides insights into the publishing world and the celebrities he worked with over four decades. His battle with prostate cancer in 1994 led him to write "Man to Man" (1997), which recounted his medical experience.
์ฝ๋ค์ ๊ฐ์ธ์ ๊ฒฝํ์ ์ข ์ข ๊ทธ์ ๊ธ์ฐ๊ธฐ์ ์ํฅ์ ๋ฏธ์ณค์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ์ ํ๊ณ ๋ก "๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ถ: ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ๋ํ ํ๊ณ ๋ก" (1999)์ ์ถํ๊ณ์ ๊ทธ๊ฐ 40๋ ๋์ ํจ๊ป ์ผํ ์ ๋ช ์ธ๋ค์ ๋ํ ํต์ฐฐ์ ์ ๊ณตํฉ๋๋ค. 1994๋ ์ ๋ฆฝ์ ์๊ณผ์ ํฌ๋ณ์ ๊ทธ๋ก ํ์ฌ๊ธ ์์ ์ ์๋ฃ ๊ฒฝํ์ ๊ธฐ๋กํ "๋จ์ ๋ ๋จ์" (1997)๋ฅผ ์ฐ๊ฒ ํ์ต๋๋ค.
His Hungarian heritage also played a significant role in his writing. In 2006, he published "Journey to a Revolution: A Personal Memoir and History of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956," which blended historical account with personal memoir.
๊ทธ์ ํ๊ฐ๋ฆฌ ํํต ๋ํ ๊ทธ์ ๊ธ์ฐ๊ธฐ์ ์ค์ํ ์ญํ ์ ํ์ต๋๋ค. 2006๋ ์ ๊ทธ๋ ์ญ์ฌ์ ์ค๋ช ๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ธ์ ํ๊ณ ๋ก์ ํผํฉํ "ํ๋ช ์ผ๋ก์ ์ฌ์ : 1956๋ ํ๊ฐ๋ฆฌ ํ๋ช ์ ๊ฐ์ธ์ ํ๊ณ ๋ก๊ณผ ์ญ์ฌ"๋ฅผ ์ถํํ์ต๋๋ค.
Legacy and Impact
์ ์ฐ๊ณผ ์ํฅ
Michael Korda's impact on the publishing industry and literature is immeasurable. As an editor, he shaped the careers of numerous authors and brought many important works to the public. As a writer, he has contributed a diverse body of work that spans genres and topics, from self-help books to historical biographies.
์ถํ ์ ๊ณ์ ๋ฌธํ์ ๋ํ ๋ง์ดํด ์ฝ๋ค์ ์ํฅ์ ์ธก์ ํ ์ ์์ ์ ๋์ ๋๋ค. ํธ์ง์๋ก์ ๊ทธ๋ ์๋ง์ ์๊ฐ๋ค์ ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ์ ํ์ฑํ๊ณ ๋ง์ ์ค์ํ ์ํ๋ค์ ๋์ค์๊ฒ ์ ๋ณด์์ต๋๋ค. ์๊ฐ๋ก์ ๊ทธ๋ ์๊ธฐ ๊ณ๋ฐ์์์ ์ญ์ฌ์ ์ ๊ธฐ์ ์ด๋ฅด๊ธฐ๊น์ง ์ฅ๋ฅด์ ์ฃผ์ ๋ฅผ ์์ฐ๋ฅด๋ ๋ค์ํ ์ํ์ ๋จ๊ฒผ์ต๋๋ค.
His ability to recognize and nurture talent, combined with his own prolific writing career, has made him a true titan of the literary world. Korda's works continue to be read and studied, ensuring that his influence will be felt for generations to come.
์ฌ๋ฅ์ ์์๋ณด๊ณ ์ก์ฑํ๋ ๊ทธ์ ๋ฅ๋ ฅ๊ณผ ๋ค์์ ์งํ ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ์ด ๊ฒฐํฉ๋์ด ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๋ฌธํ๊ณ์ ์ง์ ํ ๊ฑฐ์ธ์ผ๋ก ๋ง๋ค์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฝ๋ค์ ์ํ๋ค์ ๊ณ์ํด์ ์ฝํ๊ณ ์ฐ๊ตฌ๋๊ณ ์์ด, ๊ทธ์ ์ํฅ๋ ฅ์ด ์์ผ๋ก ์ฌ๋ฌ ์ธ๋์ ๊ฑธ์ณ ๋๊ปด์ง ๊ฒ์์ ๋ณด์ฅํฉ๋๋ค.
In recognition of his contributions, Korda was awarded the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary for his participation in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. This honor underscores not only his literary achievements but also his personal connection to historical events.
๊ทธ์ ๊ณตํ์ ์ธ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ฝ๋ค๋ 1956๋ ํ๊ฐ๋ฆฌ ํ๋ช ์ฐธ์ฌ์ ๋ํด ํ๊ฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ณตํ๊ตญ ๊ณต๋ก ํ์ฅ์ ๋ฐ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด ์์๋ ๊ทธ์ ๋ฌธํ์ ์ ์ ๋ฟ๋ง ์๋๋ผ ์ญ์ฌ์ ์ฌ๊ฑด๊ณผ์ ๊ฐ์ธ์ ์ฐ๊ด์ฑ๋ ๊ฐ์กฐํฉ๋๋ค.
Michael Korda's life and career serve as an inspiration to aspiring writers and editors. His journey from an editorial assistant to a renowned author and editor-in-chief demonstrates the power of perseverance, adaptability, and a genuine love for the written word.
๋ง์ดํด ์ฝ๋ค์ ์ถ๊ณผ ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ์ ์๊ฐ์ ํธ์ง์๋ฅผ ๊ฟ๊พธ๋ ์ด๋ค์๊ฒ ์๊ฐ์ด ๋ฉ๋๋ค. ํธ์ง ๋ณด์กฐ์์ ์ ๋ช ์๊ฐ์ ํธ์ง์ฅ์ผ๋ก ์ฑ์ฅํ ๊ทธ์ ์ฌ์ ์ ์ธ๋ด, ์ ์๋ ฅ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ธ์ ๋ํ ์ง์ ํ ์ฌ๋์ ํ์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ค๋๋ค