We pay tribute to the authors, illustrators, and publishing professionals we have lost so far this year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-07-30 04:00:00 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 US leader has taken a break from being a world statesman to pay tribute in prose to ‘an American treasure’Charlie Brown and Snoopy have found a high-profile supporter in Barack Obama, who has taken a break from running the US to write the foreword to a new volume collecting what the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2016-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishing colleagues have continued to pay tribute to George Weidenfeld's "passion for book ideas" and his supportiveness to colleagues young and old, in the wake of his death at the age of 96. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-01-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nearly 200 industry members gathered October 31 at the Random House Building in New York City to pay tribute to Oscar Dystel. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
For the past 15 years or so, poets and poetry lovers around the world have earmarked January 17 as a day to pay tribute to the late poet and pacifist William Stafford (1914–1993) with public readings from his works. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]