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Obituary: Andrea Cheng
Children's book author and educator Andrea Cheng, whose books often focused on intercultural and intergenerational relationships, died on December 26 following a long illness. She was 58.
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Obituary: Arthur Thornhill, Jr.
Former CEO of Little, Brown and Company, Arthur H. Thornhill, Jr., died on December 17. He was 91.
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Obituary: Mark Dressler
An industry consultant who created educational programming for both Book Expo America and the Frankfurt Book Fair, Dressler died on December 23, after a battle with cancer. He was 55.
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Obituary: Charles F. Harris
The founder of Amistad Press, and a pioneering African American book publishing executive, died December 16 in New York City. He was 81.
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Obituary: Peter Dickinson
British author and poet Peter Dickinson, who won back-to-back Carnegie Medals in the U.K., died on December 16, his 88th birthday.
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Obituary: Penguin Exec Carl L. Jolley
Carl L. Jolley, a longtime Penguin Group (USA) distribution executive who retired in 2009 as v-p, corporate director, distribution, passed away on Monday, December 14, at his home in Pennsylvania. He was 70.
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Obituary: Alix Nelson-Frick
Alix Nelson-Frick, author and former CEO of the book-focused advertising firm Franklin Spier, died November 12. She was 77.
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Obituary: Carl Llewellyn Weschcke
Weschcke, who has owned one of the world's oldest spirituality publishers, Llewellyn Worldwide, since 1961, died on Saturday. He was 85.
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Obituary: Rena Wolner
Rena Wolner, the only woman to be named president and publisher of three major mass market publishing houses, died of lung cancer November 7. She was 70.
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Obituary: Dan Poynter
Dan Poynter, author, founder of Para Publishing, publishing consultant, parachute-designer and self-publishing pioneer, died November 3 after a long illness. He was 77.
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Obituary: Gerald Gross, 94
Gerald Gross, a top publishing executive at several major houses from 1946-1975, died in his home in the Baltimore area on October 14. He was 94.
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Obituary: Robert 'Bob' Gray
Bob Gray, publisher of Central Recovery Press, 57, died on October 15, 2015, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, after a long illness.
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Obituary: Vera B. Williams
Vera B. Williams, noted children’s book author and illustrator, artist, educator, and social activist, died on October 16, 2015. She was 88.
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Obituary: Tarcher Books Founder Jeremy Tarcher
Jeremy Tarcher, the founder of the publishing company Tarcher Books (now part of the Tarcher Perigee imprint of Penguin Random House), died September 20.
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Obituary: Frank Urbanowski, Former Director of MIT Press, Dies
The former MIT Press director who pioneered the strategy of focused disciplinary specialization, created the first university press website, and published the first interactive e-book died late last week.
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Jackie Collins Dies at 77
Collins, the mega-bestselling author of Hollywood novels, died on September 19 at the age of 77.
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Obituary: Liz Perle, 59
Perle, who served as publisher of William Morrow, among other top level positions across publishing houses, died August 20 at the age of 59, after living with breast cancer for more than eight years.
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Obituary: Ann McGovern
Prolific children’s author, collage artist, and world traveler Ann McGovern died on Saturday, August 8, at her home in New York City. She was 85.
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Obituary: Patricia Day Stein, of Stein and Day Publishers
Patricia Day Stein, who was v-p and co-founder of the book publisher Stein and Day with her then husband Sol Stein, died on July 16 in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y., of natural causes.
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Obituary: E.L. Doctorow
E.L. Doctorow, the American author best known for such novels as 'Ragtime' and 'The March,' died on Tuesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 84.
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