Renowned literary agent Ed Victor has died aged 78, his agency has confirmed. In a statement, the agency said: "It is with the deepest sadness that we announce the death of Ed Victor CBE, Chairman and founder of the Ed Victor Literary Agency. He died of a heart attack late in the evening on 7th June at the London Clinic after a long battle with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL)." Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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Terry Kitson, former c.e.o. of HarperCollins UK and Australia, has died following a short illness. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-07-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Literary agent Carolyn Whitaker has died, aged 79, following a long battle with cancer. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-07-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amercian writer and futurist Alvin Toffler, the celebrated author of prophetic 1970 bestseller Future Shock (Bantam), has died, aged 87. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jack Fuller won a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing at The Chicago Tribune and later became Tribune Publishing’s president. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2016-06-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Canongate is to publish Dying: A Memoir, a “remarkable little book” by Cory Taylor. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The author Jenny Diski, who published a memoir about living with inoperable lung cancer only last week, has died aged 68. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Telltale Games is best known for its emotional point-and-click adventure games The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us and Game of Thrones, but the studio's publishing division is just getting started. Telltale Publishing will bring The Fun Pimps' first-... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2016-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The recent co-owner of Minneapolis's Once Upon a Crime Bookstore, which is a fixture in the Twin Cities' literary community, died on Wednesday afternoon of leukemia. He was 66. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ellen Seligman, who worked for Canadian publisher McClelland & Stewart for four decades and edited Margaret Atwood's books, died on Friday. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Conroy, the author of 'The Prince of Tides' and 'The Great Santini,' died of pancreatic cancer at his South Carolina home. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Harper Lee created a work that has endured for generations with her first novel 'Mockingbird,' which told the story of Scout Finch and her experiences as her father battles racism. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2016-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Harper Lee created a work that has endured for generations with her first novel 'Mockingbird,' which told the story of Scout Finch and her experiences as her father battles racism. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2016-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Umberto Eco, an Italian novelist and intellectual of worldwide renown who imbued his work with humor and scholarship and whose novel “The Name of the Rose” became a global phenomenon, has died, his American publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt confirmed late Friday afternoon. He was 84. Eco was... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2016-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Harper Lee, who wrote one of America's most enduring literary classics, To Kill a Mockingbird, about a child's view of right and wrong and waited 55 years to publish a second book with the same characters from a very different point of view, died at the age of 89 on Friday (Saturday NZ Time). Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2016-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Citing confirmation from multiple sources, numerous media outlets have reported that Pulitzer Prize-winning author Harper Lee has died at age 89. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Margaret Forster has died, aged 77, following a battle with cancer in her back. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-02-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Towering figure in British publishing, who worked with authors from Harold Wilson to Vladimir Nabokov, remained engaged with the business until very recently“I try not to think that I might not be here when some of my projects come to fruition”: a 2009 interview with Lord WeidenfeldLord George... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2016-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Johns – also an adviser to Gough Whitlam and to Malcolm Fraser, political correspondent and head of Penguin books – remembered as a cultural leaderFormer ABC managing director Brian Johns has died of cancer aged 79.The outgoing managing director, Mark Scott, paid tribute to his predecessor,... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Literary agent Ed Victor, philanthropist William Sieghart and authors Simon Brett and Vivian French all feature on this year's New Year's Honours. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-12-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Money may be flowing into media, but it's not doing so equally. Some big publishers are raising more money at higher and higher valuations, while others are getting squeezed by the shifts in the media environment. Lucky, All You, National Journal and Details all shuttered their print operations,... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2015-12-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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