Top academic publisher who joined Cambridge University Press as a graduate trainee and became a managing director in 2002Andrew Brown, who has died aged 63 of cancer, was one of the leading academic publishers of his generation. Having joined Cambridge University Press as a graduate trainee in 1976, he went on to shape its English and American literature lists before being promoted to senior management roles that took him around the world.Andy's love of literature was nurtured at Magdalene College, Cambridge, in the late 1960s, when a colourful group of undergraduates, including the writer Julian Fellowes, found inspiration in the teaching of Arthur Sale. Having caught the Victorian bug from Arthur, Andy taught in the US before returning to Magdalene to write his doctoral thesis on the novels of Edward Bulwer-Lytton, author of The Last Days of Pompeii, then a greatly underestimated figure.Later Andy produced an outstanding edition of George Eliot's Romola for Oxford University Press, while working for CUP in his day job, clearly relishing the challenge of annotating that most learned of novels and minutely comparing different versions of the text. It was this personal engagement in scholarship, combined with an eclectic interest in world literature – he had also been supervised by George Steiner – and a passionate interest in classical music, film and Liverpool FC that made him such an effective professional and convivial friend.Andy was born in London, the son of Edgar... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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