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Margaret K. McElderry Dies at 98
Legendary children's book editor and publisher Margaret K. McElderry died Monday. February 14, at the age of 98. In a 1997 New York Times profile, the Times's Eden Ross Lipson called McElderry "the last of her class of editors who brought American children's books into the postwar world."
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Janet Schulman Dies at 77
Author, anthologist, and children's book publisher Janet Schulman died Friday, February 11, from complications due to lung cancer. She was 77. Schulman, who began her publishing career in 1959 at Macmillan, worked for more than 30 years at Random House, where, among other things, she was the last editor there to edit Dr. Seuss.
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Brian Jacques, 1939-2011
Brian Jacques, author of the bestselling Redwall series, died after a heart attack on Saturday, February 5. He was 71. The Redwall fantasy series, set in a world populated with anthropomorphized animals, began in 1986 with Redwall, which was published in the U.S. by Philomel. Since, the series has been published in more than 20 countries and has sold more than 20 million copies.
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George Edward Stanley, 1942-2011
George Edward Stanley, author of more than 100 books for young people, died on Monday, February 7, after a ruptured aneurysm; he was 68. After writing and publishing over 200 short stories in American, British, Irish, and South African magazines, Stanley turned to writing books.
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Memorial Service Set for Manie Barron
A memorial service will be held February 5 for literary agent Manie Barron, who passed away January 8. The service will be held at St. Bartholomew’s Church, 325 Park Ave. in New York City.
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Agent Abner Stein Dies
Longtime agent Abner Stein died earlier this month. Stein worked at various American houses before moving to London in the 1960s to join Sphere Books. In 1971 he launched his own eponymous agency, representing American publishers and agents, as well as British and other clients.
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Manie Barron Dead at 56
Literary agent and former bookseller Emanuel Joseph Barron, known throughout the publishing industry as Manie, died January 8 from a hemorrhage while being treated for lung cancer at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. He was 56.
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Obituary: Eva Ibbotson
Author Eva Ibbotson died October 20 at her home in Newcastle, England. She was 85. In a career that spanned three decades, she wrote more than 20 novels for children and adults.
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Obituary: Stuart Hample
Artist and author Stuart Hample, who published several children's books as Stoo Hample, died September 19 at his home in New York City. He was 84.
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Obituary: Joan Steiner
Joan Steiner, creator of the Look-Alikes series of books, died September 8 of cancer at her home in Claverack, N.Y. Steiner's first children's book, Look-Alikes, was published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers in 1998. Look-Alikes was named a best book of the year by several publications, including PW; the series sold more than one million copies in 16 languages worldwide.
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Thomas Guinzburg, Paris Review Founder and Viking President, Dies at 84
Thomas Guinzburg, one of the founders of the Paris Review and the former president of Viking, the publishing house founded by his father, died on Wednesday at 84. He was listening to the U.S. Open in Manhattan when he died, according to the New York Times.
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Missing Barry Hannah
The 17th Annual Oxford Conference for the Book, held March 4—6, in Oxford, Miss., was to be a special celebration this year, dedicated to the award-winning author, teacher, and local legend, Barry Hannah. Instead the conference became an emotional final farewell, after the 67-year-old Hannah died suddenly on March 1, just three days before the event intended to honor his life and work was...
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Seeking Salinger: Meditation Center Remembers Late Author
Four letters that J.D. Salinger wrote to the Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center of New York in the 1960s and 1970s reveal the author's familiarity with meditation and the teachings of Vedanta. The letters have now been posted to the center's Web site. Cosmic coincidence? Salinger's home in New Hampshire wasn't far from Skylight Paths in Vermont, which publishes material from the New York center.
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Obituary: Sheila Lukins
Sheila Lukins, co-author of The Silver Palate Cookbook and The New Basics Cookbook, and author Celebrate!, Ten and other cookbooks, died yesterday. The cause was brain cancer, diagnosed three months ago. Lukins was 66.
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