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Obituary: Helene Green
Helene Green, v-p, business information and data operations at Simon & Schuster, died June 10 after a long illness.
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Obituary: Helene Green
Helene Green, v-p, business information and data operations at Simon & Schuster, died June 10 after a long illness.
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Obituary: Eric Hill
Eric Hill, author of "Where's Spot?," died on June 6 at age 86.
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Obituary: Frances Foster
Frances Foster, editor of numerous award-winning authors and illustrators, died on Sunday, June 8.
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Obituary: Publisher Colin Jones, 76
Scholarly and academic publisher Colin Jones passed away on March 1, after a bout with Alzheimer's Disease. He was 76.
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Obituary: Publisher Oscar Dystel, 101
Oscar Dystel, an early pioneer of mass market paperbacks and one-time CEO of Bantam Books, passed away at the age of 101.
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Remembering Literary Agent Deborah Rogers
The book world has been stunned by the sudden death of Deborah Rogers, co-founder of Roger, Coleridge & White, and a woman who was midwife to some of contemporary fiction’s most significant authors.
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Obituary: Barb Burg, 50
Barb Burg, who started her career in publicity in 1986 at Bantam Books and rose to become senior v-p and director of publicity and public relations for Bantam Doubleday Dell, died April 29. She was 50.
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Obituary: Literary Agent Lois Wallace, 73
In the forty years since she founded the Wallace Literary Agency, she has represented authors like William F. Buckley, Joan Didion, and Don DeLillo.
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Memorial Held for CBSD's Tom Oaks
A memorial service for Consortium Book Sales & Distribution publishers' services coordinator Tom Oaks, 60, was held in suburban St. Paul, Minn. on Sunday, with 300 friends, family, and colleagues present.
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Obituary: Abrams's Erica Kochman Warshal, 31
Erica Kochman Warshal, director of national accounts at Abrams, passed away suddenly on March 31.
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Obituary: Running Press Cofounder Lawrence Teacher, 72
Teacher, who cofounded Running Press in 1972, died at his home in Philadelphia on March 25.
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Obituary: Author and Editor Donald Michael Kraig, 63
Kraig is perhaps best known as the author of "Modern Magick," published in 1988.
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Obituary: Bookseller Demetria Togeas
The manager of Vroman’s Hastings Ranch store since 2002 passed away March 14 after a long battle with cancer.
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Obituary: Walter E. Freese, Jr, 85
Walter Freese, former executive at Doubleday Publishing, died February 21 on Shelter Island, N.Y., four days shy of his 86th birthday.
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Obituary: Agent Rosalind Paige Cole, 88
Her high-profile client roster included Andy Warhol and Errol Flynn.
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Obituary: Erik Blegvad
Acclaimed illustrator Erik Blegvad, whose artwork appeared in more than 100 children's books, several of them by his wife Lenore Blegvad (1926-2008), died on January 14 at the age of 90.
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Obituary: RH Audio's Cynthia Cowen, 79
Cynthia Cowen, manager of production and digital distribution at the Random House Audio Publishing Group, passed away on January 30.
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Notable Deaths of 2013
The deaths of individuals who have contributed to the 20th and 21st century literary landscapes provide an opportunity: to reflect on lives lived in the service of ideas, stories, and free expression. Here, PW honors the authors, illustrators, and publishing professionals who left us in 2013; their enduring words and works will serve as their epitaphs.
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Obituary: Poet, Radical Black Activist Amiri Baraka, Dead at 79
Amiri Baraka, a seminal poet, playwright, novelist, Jazz critic and essayist, died January 9, 2014 in Newark N.J. after six decades as a controversial and protean American literary figure. He was 79 years old.
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