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Obituary: John Adams
John Adams, national accounts manager for Penguin Random House, died August 3 of an apparent heart attack. He was 64. A veteran sales rep, he was with PRH and its predecessor companies for 34 years.
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John Lewis, Heroic Civil Rights Leader, Dies at 80
Rep. John Lewis, a fearless leader during the Civil Rights Movement, a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Honor, and the author of the March trilogy, a graphic memoir of the Civil Rights Movement and the first work of comics arts to receive a National Book Award, died on July 17.
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Obituary: Dick Donahue
Dick Donahue, retired features editor at 'Publishers Weekly,' died on July 5 at his assisted living residence, the Beth Abraham Center in the Bronx. He was 79.
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Obituary: Peter Quandt
Peter Quandt, a former president and CEO of Macmillan Book Clubs and the K-III Education Group, has died of cancer in Chappaqua, N.Y. He was 71.
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Memorial Celebrates Life of S&S's Carolyn Reidy
A memorial for Carolyn Reidy, who died on May 12, celebrated the life of the influential Simon & Schuster publisher. Speakers included former colleagues as well as authors, including Doris Kearns Goodwin and Hillary Clinton.
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Obituary: U.K. Literary Agent Felicity Bryan
Felicity Bryan, founder of Felicity Bryan Associates and one of Britain’s most respected literary agents, died June 21 of cancer. She was 74.
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Obituary: Stella Pevsner
Children's author Stella Pevsner, widely known for her middle grade and YA novels that often addressed difficult subjects, died on June 11 at age 98.
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Obituary: India Cooper
Veteran book publishing copy editor and actor India Cooper died on May 17 in Madison, Ind., after a brief illness. She was 67.
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Bookselling Visionary Harry Hoffman Dies at 92
Harry Hoffman, the most powerful person in bookselling in the 1980s as the CEO of Waldenbooks, died on May 20 at age 92. Hoffman took over the 500-bookstore chain in 1979 and, when he retired in 1991, the chain had about 1,300 outlets and sales of over $1 billion.
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Obituary: Karen Blumenthal
Children's book author and journalist Karen Blumenthal, widely recognized for her works of narrative nonfiction addressing complicated subject matters, died on May 19 ; she was 61.
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