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Editor-in-chief Boom! Studios, Los Angeles When Gagnon joined Boom! in 2008, it was a tiny start-up. Since 2010, when Gagnon was named editor-in-chief, it has grown exponentially. It now boasts [...]

Slowly, steadily, an MIT editor builds a dynamite list Far from the madding crowd, in the picturesque town of Portland, Maine, where lobstermen ply their trade in the chilly waters [...]

As he marked 40 years at Random House this month, Erroll McDonald, v-p, executive editor in the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group of Penguin Random House, talked with PW about a [...]

A MEMORIAL SERVICE for Robert Jones, the editor-in-chief of HarperCollins who died August 13, will be held September 10 at the University Club at 3 p.m. The University Club is [...]

Robert Jones ROBERT S. JONES, a HarperCollins veteran who became editor-in-chief in the spring, died of cancer in a New York hospital August 13. He was 47. Jones joined Harper [...]

JESS BELL, a former associate director of Stanford University Press, died of a heart attack April 7 at age 72. Bell joined Stanford as an editor following active duty during [...]

Phyllis Sari Levy A MEMORIAL WILL BE HELD at 6 p.m. on April 18, at the Museum of Television and Radio, 25 W. 52nd St., New York City, for Phyllis [...]

Bernard Geis BERNARD GEIS, a book publisher known for his aggressive marketing of sexy bestsellers in the 1960s and 1970s, died in New York City on January 8. He was [...]

OLE RISOM, veteran children's book editor, died on August 19. He was 80. Risom was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, and emigrated to the U.S. in 1941. After working as the [...]

AUTHOR AND CHILDREN'S BOOK EDITOR JEAN KARL died on March 30 in Lancaster, Pa. She was 72. Karl was a force in children's publishing, the editor of a roster of [...]

WILLIAM B. DECKER, former editor and author, died in Ashland, Ore., January 6 from complications following a stroke. He was 73. Decker began his publishing career in 1959 at McGraw-Hill. [...]

Faith Sale Dead at 63 FAITH SALE, who in 20 years at Putnam emerged as one of the eminent literary editors of her day, died in a hospital December 7 [...]

FRANK E. TAYLOR, whose long publishing career included posts, often senior ones, at Reynal & Hitchcock, Random House, Dell, Avon and McGraw-Hill, died in Key West, Fla., November 16 after [...]

WILLIAM TARG, a lifelong bookman who had been by turns bookseller, collector, noted editor, publisher of limited editions and author, died July 22 after a long illness. He was 92. [...]

'People feel really called to be at Beacon,' said Gayatri Patnaik, who joined the Boston-based press in 2002 and was named editorial director this summer. She sees her own childhood [...]

Literary agent Elaine Koster died on August 10 in New York City. She was 69. Koster became v-p and editor-in-chief at NAL in 1972 and eventually took over as publisher, [...]

Last year will be a tough one to top for Joshua Kendall, who was brought in to run Mulholland Books, the new Little, Brown imprint, in 2012. Under his direction, [...]

A framed sign of success hangs in editor Ann Godoff's mid-sized office at Random House: a rectangle housing covers of three of her books--The Alienist by Caleb Carr; Makes Me [...]

Derek Weiler, editor of the Canadian publishing trade Quill & Quire, died on April 12 at his home in Toronto. Weiler, who had been quietly battling a chronic health problem, [...]

From citation slips to sophisticated technology - Leonore Crary Hauck's four decades in dictionary publishing When Leonore Crary Hauck graduated from Queens College in 1947 at the age of 21, [...]

Brian M. Thomsen, a consulting editor at Tor and an author, died September 21 at his home in Brooklyn; he was 49. Thomsen was one of the founding editors of [...]

A memorial service is being planned for some time later this fall in New York for Robert Giroux, who died Sept. 5 at the age 94. Giroux, who grew up [...]

Book editor Esther Mitgang and author Madeleine L'Engle have died. Mitgang, whose career spanned 31 years as an editor, publisher, designer, packager and indie publisher, died on August 31 at [...]

Prolific author, editor and poet Lilian Moore died July 20 at the age of 95. Moore's writing and editorial career spanned six decades; her dedication to children's literature began after [...]

A memorial service for Sara Ann Freed, editor-in-chief at Mysterious Press, who died June 25 at age 57 (News, July 7), will be held on Wednesday, September 17, at the [...]

PETER SCHWED, chairman emeritus of the S&S editorial board, died at Beth Israel Hospital in Manhattan July 31. He was 92. Schwed began his publishing career at the age of [...]

EDITOR AND AUTHOR Olga Litowinsky died July 20 after a long illness. She was 67. During her career, Litowinsky worked for Viking, Macmillan and Scribner. She was executive editor at [...]

Sara Ann Freed, 57 SARA ANN FREED, an award-winning editor-in-chief at Mysterious Press and a senior editor at Warner Books, died in New York City while receiving treatment for leukemia. [...]

LOUISE GAULT, 68 LOUISE GAULT, a longtime Doubleday editor, died in a New York City hospital May23 after a long battle with cancer. She was 68. Gault worked at Doubleday [...]

Carole Kismaric ,60 CAROLE KISMARIC, an acclaimed editor, packager and book designer, died of pancreatic cancer at her home in New York City November 19. She was 60. Kismaric began [...]

AN OVERFLOW CROWD or more than 500 New York City's Cooper Union June 12 to pay tribute to former Abrams president and art publishing pioneer Paul Gottlieb, who died June [...]

Elizabeth Riley, 94 LONGTIME CHILDREN'S BOOK editor Elizabeth Riley died on January 27. She was 94. A lifelong New Yorker, Riley graduated from New York University in 1928 and earned [...]

PHOEBE-LOU ADAMS, a former editor and book reviewer for the Atlantic Monthly, died on December 21 in Connecticut. She was 83. After brief stints as a librarian and a cub [...]

WILLIAM JOVANOVICH, longtime chairman of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, died at his home in San Diego December 4. He was 81. After serving in the navy during World War II, Jovanovich [...]

PAUL FLAMAND, who died last month at the age of 89, was considered by many Frenchmen and colleagues abroad as the best publisher of his time; his Editions du Seuil, [...]

IVA KAPLAN ASHNER, v-p, editor and director of advertising at W.W. Norton & Co., died from cancer at New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan March 13. She was [...]

CHILDREN'S BOOK editor Alice Miller Bregman died on December 13, following a brief illness. She was 54 years old. During her extensive publishing career she worked at Scholastic, where she [...]

Barbara Karlin, former children's book editor of the Los Angeles Times, died on September 24. Karlin had been a reviewer of children's books for such publications as the New York [...]