Cecile Engel, the co-founder and publisher of Delphinium Books and honorary board member of the Paul Taylor Dance Company, died on September 6 after a protracted bout of cancer. She was 80.
Engel and Lori Milken co-founded the small independent publisher Delphinium Books in 1986. In 1999, Delphinium author Rosina Lippi won the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction.
Delphinium continued to have successes in literary fiction, including Joseph Caldwell's bestselling satirical Pig Trilogy, and also took on nonfiction, including Alison Lurie's meditation on architecture, The Language of Houses.
Engel's death was confirmed by her family.
