A memorial has been set for Soho Press editor-in-chief, Laura Hruska, who died Saturday after a long sickness. One of the founders of Soho, Hruska also served as publisher of the house until last month when her daughter, Bronwen, took over the position. The service will be held Friday, January 15, at 11:30 a.m. at the Campbell Funeral Home on 1076 Madison Avenue in Manhattan.

Hruska, who started Soho Press in 1986 with her husband Alan and friend (and former Dial Press editor-in-chief) Juris Jurjevics, was 74. Hruska helped launched the careers of numerous authors at Soho, including Edwidge Danticat and Garth Stein. With an undergraduate degree from Cornell and a J.D. from Yale, Hruska began her career as a lawyer and worked as a litigator for a number of years before she quit to raise her children and pursue a writing career. In 1976 Dutton published two novels she had written, A Change of Heart and Legal Relations, under the pen name Laura Chapman.