Longtime Publishing Professional L.D. Clepper Dies at 85

In his long career in book sales and marketing, Clepper worked at Macmillan, Harper & Row, Houghton Mifflin, and Oxford University Press. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-08-23 04:00:00 UTC ]
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