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Obituary: Kathleen Bursley
An intellectual property lawyer and former general counsel at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Bursley died on January 30. She was 61.
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Obituary: Hillel Black, 86
Hillel Black, former publisher of Macmillan and editor-in-chief at William Morrow, died February 8 at the age of 86.
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Obituary: Andrew Pate
Andrew Pate, who worked as an executive at several technology and print-on-demand companies, died November 10. He was 58.
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Authors Guild's Paul Aiken Dead at Age 56
Paul Aiken, the former long-time executive director of the Authors Guild, died Friday January 29, one day shy of his 57th birthday.
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Obituary: Skip Skwarek
Skip Skwarek, whose long tenure at Dial Books for Young Readers included roles as managing editor and associate publisher, died of pneumonia on January 15. He was 70.
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Kristin Keith, Norton Sales Rep, Dies at 45
Kristin Keith, the Mid-Atlantic sales representative for W. W. Norton & Company, died at her home on January 4 of complications stemming from myelofibrosis.
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Obituary: Andrea Cheng
Children's book author and educator Andrea Cheng, whose books often focused on intercultural and intergenerational relationships, died on December 26 following a long illness. She was 58.
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Obituary: Arthur Thornhill, Jr.
Former CEO of Little, Brown and Company, Arthur H. Thornhill, Jr., died on December 17. He was 91.
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Obituary: Mark Dressler
An industry consultant who created educational programming for both Book Expo America and the Frankfurt Book Fair, Dressler died on December 23, after a battle with cancer. He was 55.
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Obituary: Charles F. Harris
The founder of Amistad Press, and a pioneering African American book publishing executive, died December 16 in New York City. He was 81.
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Obituary: Peter Dickinson
British author and poet Peter Dickinson, who won back-to-back Carnegie Medals in the U.K., died on December 16, his 88th birthday.
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Obituary: Penguin Exec Carl L. Jolley
Carl L. Jolley, a longtime Penguin Group (USA) distribution executive who retired in 2009 as v-p, corporate director, distribution, passed away on Monday, December 14, at his home in Pennsylvania. He was 70.
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Obituary: Alix Nelson-Frick
Alix Nelson-Frick, author and former CEO of the book-focused advertising firm Franklin Spier, died November 12. She was 77.
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Obituary: Carl Llewellyn Weschcke
Weschcke, who has owned one of the world's oldest spirituality publishers, Llewellyn Worldwide, since 1961, died on Saturday. He was 85.
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Obituary: Rena Wolner
Rena Wolner, the only woman to be named president and publisher of three major mass market publishing houses, died of lung cancer November 7. She was 70.
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Obituary: Dan Poynter
Dan Poynter, author, founder of Para Publishing, publishing consultant, parachute-designer and self-publishing pioneer, died November 3 after a long illness. He was 77.
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Obituary: Gerald Gross, 94
Gerald Gross, a top publishing executive at several major houses from 1946-1975, died in his home in the Baltimore area on October 14. He was 94.
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Obituary: Robert 'Bob' Gray
Bob Gray, publisher of Central Recovery Press, 57, died on October 15, 2015, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, after a long illness.
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Obituary: Vera B. Williams
Vera B. Williams, noted children’s book author and illustrator, artist, educator, and social activist, died on October 16, 2015. She was 88.
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Obituary: Tarcher Books Founder Jeremy Tarcher
Jeremy Tarcher, the founder of the publishing company Tarcher Books (now part of the Tarcher Perigee imprint of Penguin Random House), died September 20.
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