The 1999 LMP Awards winners were announced April 30 at a gala awards luncheon during BEA.
Jane Friedman, president and CEO, HarperCollins won the Person of the Year award. Presenter Charles Halpin, senior v-p, Cahners Book Publishing Group, cited 34 titles on the New York Times bestseller list and the launching of two imprints among Friedman's winning accomplishments. "She has taken one of the great names in publishing and made it a reinvigorated publishing enterprise," said Halpin.
Other winners were:
Editorial: Shaye Areheart, Harmony Books, for her body of work, including Mendel's Dwarf by Simon Mawer, which was chosen as one of the 20 best books of the year by the NYPL.
Graphic Design, Adult: Steve Snider, creative director, St. Martin's Press. SMP's art department was, Halpin said, "first to print jackets on metalized paper, first to use laser die-cutting and have made an art of using non-standard laminations." The award for Graphic Design, Children's went to David Saylor, v-p, creative director, Scholastic Press.
There was a tie for the Sales and Marketing award, which went to the team of Craig Herman, v-p marketing at HarperCollins, and Mary Ellen Curley, marketing director, Oxford University Press, for their joint success with The Professor and the Madman. The second winner was Scholastic's marketing and sales group for its work on Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, which hit #6 on the New York Times bestseller list.
The award for Publicity went to Christine Saunders, senior publicist, Simon &Schuster, "for her superhuman efforts" in publicizing In the Meantime and One Day My Soul Just Opened Up by Iyanla Vanzant.
