 In 1917 Liveright founded the Modern Library and Boni & Liveright publishers in New York with business partner Albert Boni.Modern Library was formed as a reprinting line, publishing inexpensive books from European modernists, while Boni & Liveright published the work of contemporary Americans.Liveright published work by T. S. Eliot ("The Waste Land"), Charles Fort ("The Book of the Damned"), Theodore Dreiser ("An American Tragedy"), and Bertrand Russell ("Marriage and Morals").