Wednesday, March 05, 2014

People

Publishers Lunch

After four years of covering publishing at the New York Times, Julie Bosman is rotating to her "dream job" of working as a Midwest correspondent for the paper in April, based in their Chicago office. (Bosman grew up in Wisconsin.) The memo from national editor Alison Mitchell and deputy national editor Ethan Bronner, reproduced by Capital New York, does not indicate who will take over the publishing beat.

In other personnel news, Readerlink svp, marketing and inventory Tara Catogge is moving to Quarto Publishing Group USA as vp, sales director, Publishing Trends reports.

Shimul Tolia has been named president of Bonnier Publishing's new New York office. She was at Sterling.

Cervantes authority and Don Quixote translator Thomas Albert Lathrop, 72, died February 17, 2014 while on vacation.

Literary agent, book packager, celebrity novel pioneer, and author Bill Adler, 84, died on February in New York.

Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Justin Kaplan, 88, died March 2 in Cambridge, MA, from complications of Parkinson's disease. Kaplan won the National Book Award as well as the Pulitzer for his first book MR. CLEMENS AND MARK TWAIN (1967) and also wrote biographies of Walt Whitman and Lincoln Steffens, as well as two books with his wife, the novelist Anne Bernays. 

And from PW:

Regan Staffs New Venture
Judith Regan announced the first round of hires for her newly launched book imprint multimedia unit at Phaidon, Regan Arts. Michael Szczerban, who will serve as senior editor, comes from Simon & Schuster. Former contributing editor at Shelf Awareness and senior editor at Galley Cat Ron Hogan will join Regan Arts as editor, acquiring fiction and nonfiction. Associate editor Fritz Brantley was previously an editor and marketer at Routledge. more »


Promotions at Grand Central Publishing
Grand Central announced a number of promotions in various departments. Emily Griffin has been named senior editor, Libby Burton has been named assistant editor, and Lindsey Rose has been promoted to assistant editor. At Forever/Forever Yours, Michele Bidelspach and Alex Logan have been promoted to senior editor. At Grand Central publicity, Sonya Cheuse has been promoted to deputy director of publicity. Caitlin Mulrooney-Lyski has been promoted to publicity manager. more » »

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