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Thu, 24/01/2013 - 15:25
Peter Carson found himself thrust into the limelight of British publishing soon after Peter Mayer arrived from New York in the late ’70s to revive that ailing British institution, Penguin. Until then he’d probably foreseen—and looked forward to—a satisfying career as a history publisher, trawling the campuses for young...
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Fri, 21/05/2010 - 06:01
Robert Laffont, affectionately known as the grandfather of French publishing, died on 19th May aged 93.
The son of a naval officer, Laffont first embarked unenthusiastically on a legal career. But then came the second world war and a radical change of direction. Hesitating between cinema and books, his friend and sometime partner Guy...
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Tue, 01/12/2009 - 17:22
Geoffrey Moorhouse was a writer of outstanding qualities. His tone of voice, his powers of observation and above all his integrity were truly inspiring. From his earliest days at Bury Grammar School he had the gift of expressing himself with a controlled elegance and he always said that he never had any doubt from his teens onwards that he...
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Mon, 30/11/2009 - 15:44
The funeral of travel writer Geoffrey Moorhouse, who has died aged 77, will be held in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire, on Wednesday (2nd December).
The funeral is at Hawes parish church at 2.45pm and details on trains and connections from London may be had from Marilyn Dugdale at ...
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Wed, 11/11/2009 - 13:20
William Miller, founding managing director of the English Agency (Japan), has died of blood poisoning.
He was cremated in a private ceremony on 7th November and a memorial was held in Tokyo yesterday [Thursday]. A second memorial has been planned for the week before London Book Fair next year.
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Wed, 28/01/2009 - 09:15
Tributes have started pouring in for American author John Updike, who died yesterday (27th January) aged 76.
His US publisher Alfred Knopf described Updike as "one of our greatest writers" in a statement to the press.
"He was a part of the Knopf family for over 50 years," the statement said. "We will all...
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Mon, 03/11/2008 - 06:15
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Studs Terkel has died at his home in Chicago, aged 96, his son has announced.
Born Louis Terkel, he won a Pulitzer in 1985 for his chronicling of World War II in his oral history, The Good War.
"My dad led a long, full, eventful, sometimes tempestuous, but very satisfying life,"...
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Thu, 07/02/2008 - 09:01
The national newspapers are running obituaries of Kate Jones, the London literary agent who died last Friday aged 46. In the Independent, Profile Books managing director Andrew Franklin pens a glittering tribute, describing Jones as "one of the most brilliant literary agents of her generation", who was "at the peak of...
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