About 200 friends attended a memorial service on Thursday evening at New York’s Metropolitan Club to celebrate the memory of the influential publisher and noted opera buff, who died last October. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-03-01 05:00:00 UTC ]
Hilary Mantel died last September at age 70, but a memorial service just this week revealed something of use to those who miss her words. The Guardian’s Saturday Paper will be publishing excerpts from an unpublished project mashing together Jane Austen’s works. “She was having the greatest fun... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-04-21 16:03:28 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 ]
Sonny Mehta was the "Rolls-Royce of publishers", a memorial service in London heard yesterday, as authors including Graham Swift, Kazuo Ishiguro and Julian Barnes joined publishers Markus Dohle and Gail Rebuck to pay tribute to the long-time editor-in-chief of Knopf, who died in December. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-10 00:20:15 UTC ]
The late Peter Mayer is remembered as the man who made the Penguin Group 'the world’s most admired and successful publishing company.' The post At Peter Mayer’s Memorial Service: Appreciation for a Publishing Giant appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-12-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
A memorial service to celebrate the life of publisher and bookseller John Calder will be held at the Free Word Centre, Farringdon Road, London on Friday 9th November. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-10-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
A host of authors and illustrators, publishing chiefs, and high-profile actors were among those who remembered children's author Michael Bond CBE at a service held at St Paul's Cathedral. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-11-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
A memorial service for Paddington Bear creator Michael Bond CBE will be held at St Paul’s Cathedral on 14th November. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-10-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Novelist Val McDermid and Baroness Valerie Amos, the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, will be among the speakers at the memorial service for crime writer Ruth Rendell next week. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
A memorial service for the late Ruth Rendell is due to held next month. Rendell died on 2nd May at the age of 85, almost four months after being admitted to hospital after suffering a critical stroke. A service for Rendell will be held on Thursday 29th October at All Saints Margaret Street,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-09-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
A memorial service for Ion Trewin, who died earlier this year after a battle with cancer, is to be held in the autumn. Trewin, who was literary director of the Booker Prize Foundation, passed away on 8th April. Formerly literary editor of the Times, Trewin then worked at Weidenfeld &... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-07-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
A memorial service for former bookseller Dan Odegard will be held at Frances Cabrini Catholic Church in Minneapolis on May 14 at 3 p.m. Odegard died on March 31. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon Master was both Clark Kent and Superman, passionate about books with a penchant for “career threatening” lunches, and possessed of a wicked and irreverent sense of humour. The comments were made at a memorial service for the former Random House group deputy chairman held last Friday (17th... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
A memorial service for Random House UK’s Simon Master, who died in January, provided a fitting PS to the London Book Fair which wrapped up last week. The post UK Publishing Giant Simon Master Remembered appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-04-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
A memorial service for former Random House group deputy chairman Simon Master will take place on Friday 17th April. The service will take place at at St Luke’s Church, Sydney Street, London SW3 6NH at 11 a.m. and will be followed at 12.15p.m. by a reception in the Culford Room, Cadogan Hall, 5... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Approximately 250 people--a mix of Minnesota’s book publishing community, Coffee House Press authors, and others--celebrated the life of CHP's founding publisher, Allan Kornblum, in a memorial service in Minneapolis on January 17. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
A memorial service will be held for Abrams's Erica Kochman Warshal on May 8 at 5 p.m. at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
A memorial service for Doris Lessing will be held at St Martin-in-the-Fields in Trafalgar Square... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
A memorial service for Constable & Robinson chairman Nick Robinson will be held in December... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-29 00:00:00 UTC ]