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Harry Lerner, Founder of Lerner Publishing Group, Dies at 93
Lerner launched his children’s publishing company in 1959 and built it up over the next 50 years into one of the country’s largest independent publishers of books for young people. He died in Minneapolis on April 8.
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Obituary: Jean Van Leeuwen
Children’s author Jean Van Leeuwen, known for a broad oeuvre including her beginning-reader stories following the adventures of Oliver Pig, died on March 3 of cancer. She was 87.
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Jesse Kornbluth, Author and Bookreporter.com Cofounder, Dies at 79
A prolific magazine writer and the author of seven books of nonfiction and two novels, Kornbluth cofounded Bookreporter.com, one of the first online destinations for books coverage, in 1996. He died on April 3.
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Virginia Norey, Associate Design Director at RHPG, Dies at 68
During her tenure at Random House Publishing Group, Norey created the enduring interior house styles, as well as illustrations and maps, for such authors as Lee Child, Diana Gabaldon, George R.R. Martin, and Danielle Steel. She died on March 28.
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Translator and Author Tim Mohr Dies at 55
Mohr, who translated such German novelists as Alina Bronsky, chronicled the Berlin music scene in a 2018 book, and helped bring to life a number of musicians’ memoirs, died at his home in Brooklyn on March 31.
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Veteran Bookseller Scott McKinstry Dies at 60
McKinstry, who worked as a bookseller at a number of prominent indies in London, Denver, New York City, and Seattle, as well as a communications manager for the American Booksellers Association, died in Seattle on March 8.
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In Memoriam: Herman Graf, 1933–2025
From Doubleday to Grove to Carroll & Graf, the veteran publisher and mentor to many lived a life of books that those who know him remember as one of a kind. Here, his former assistant shares her own memories.
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Agent and Publisher Roger Freet Dies at 56
Freet worked in several positions at HarperCollins before becoming an agent, first with Foundry Literary + Media and most recently with Folio Literary Management.
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Obituary: Anne Elisabeth (Annabeth) Suter
Swiss-born literary and artists’ agent Annabeth Suter died of natural causes on February 14 in Bern, Switzerland. She was 91.
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Eclectic Publisher Herman Graf Dies at 91
After a stint with McGraw-Hill and Doubleday in the 1960s, Graf became deeply involved in the independent press movement and co-owned the indie publisher Carroll & Graf from 1982 to 1999. He ended his career as an acquiring editor and consultant at Skyhorse Publishing.
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