Publication of 'The Diary of a Young Girl' in the United States

Five years after its first publication in the Netherlands, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl was released in 1952 in a modest edition of 5,000 copies. After an enthusiastic review by writer Meyer Levin in The New York Times Book Review^[1] sales of the book began to take off. A second print run of 15,000 copies soon followed and even a third printing of 45,000 a shorty after. In a short time, the diary went through print run after print run and millions of Americans had read the book.