Shannon comes to Simon & Schuster from Penguin Random House’s the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. She succeeds the late Gary Urda, who died suddenly on June 24. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-07-31 04:00:00 UTC ]
Children's author Katey Howes, whose picture books often focused on STEM/STEAM themes, creativity, and individualism, died suddenly on May 20 in Langhorne, Pa.; she was 47. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-06-04 04:00:00 UTC ]
Wolf Hall trilogy author remembered at memorial service at Southwark cathedral on ThursdayHilary Mantel, the celebrated author of the Wolf Hall trilogy, was working on a “mashup” of Jane Austen novels when she died suddenly, her literary agent told a packed memorial service at Southwark... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-04-20 17:46:20 UTC ]
Author-illustrator Amy Schwartz, creator of more than 60 books for young readers, died suddenly on February 26 at her home in Brooklyn; she was 68. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-03-02 05:00:00 UTC ]
Award-winning children's book author Jim Murphy, best known for his carefully researched nonfiction documenting dramatic events in history, died suddenly on May 1; he was 74. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-05-18 04:00:00 UTC ]
Rising children's author-illustrator Paula Cohen, whose debut solo picture book 'Big Dreams, Small Fish' was published on March 1, died suddenly on February 24; she was 57. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-03-03 05:00:00 UTC ]
Author and conservationist Jacqueline Rohen, whose debut novel How to Marry Your Husband is published by Arrow this month, has died suddenly at her home in Uganda. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-05-04 07:16:06 UTC ]
On December 5, New York's trade publishing community packed the TimesCenter in Manhattan to hear a who's who of authors remember the highly regarded Random House publisher Susan Kamil, who died suddenly on September 8 at 69. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-12-06 05:00:00 UTC ]
Mark Harril Saunders, director of the University of Virginia Press since 2013, died suddenly of a heart attack at his home over the weekend. He was 52. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-05-21 04:00:00 UTC ]
Curt Stewart, a key account executive at Macmillan, died suddenly on September 11 after a short illness. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
George Turianski, a senior production manager at Simon & Schuster, died suddenly on November 17. He was 53. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Blake Friedmann Agency has launched the Carole Blake Open Doors Project in memory of the “beloved” agent, who died suddenly in October. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
How the husband and daughter of food writer and historian Joy Santlofer helped complete Joy's book, 'Food City,' after she died suddenly in 2013. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-10-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hachette Australia has launched a prize for emerging writers in memory of its former c.e.o. Matt Richell, who died suddenly in July 2014. The Richell Prize for Emerging Writers, has been launched with the Richell family, is in partnership with the Guardian Australia and The Emerging Writers’... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
SurveyMonkey CEO David Goldberg, who grew the company to a $2 billion valuation, died suddenly on Friday night. He is survived by wife Sheryl Sandberg, the COO at Facebook Inc., and two children. Sandberg married Goldberg in 2004 and credited him in her book "Lean In" for his role in creating a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2015-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Charlie Hart, general manager at Kensington Publishing Corp., died suddenly on March 4 at the age of 62. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sonny Mehta has paid tribute to former colleague Simon Master [pictured], who died suddenly last week, with Mehta telling The Bookseller he felt “extremely privileged to have known him”. Master died on Friday (16th January) while on holiday, at the age of 70. He was formerly deputy group... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Children’s book author Robert San Souci, known for his retellings of folktales and myths, died suddenly on December 19 at his San Francisco home. He was 68. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-12-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Tributes have been paid from across the trade to literary agent Deborah Rogers, who died suddenly... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Influential agent Addison Cresswell has died suddenly at the age of 53. Cresswell... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-12-24 00:00:00 UTC ]