Tuesday, August 03, 2010

Poetic Obituaries: In a long publishing career, [Les] Pockell

worked at St. Martin's Press, Doubleday and the Book-of-the-Month Club before joining Warner Books, which became Grand Central, a division of Hachette Book Group (USA).

He helped edit a diverse group of authors from mystery writer Donald Westlake to the critic Harold Bloom to the actor and children's writer John Lithgow and compiled numerous anthologies, from "100 Essential American Poems" to "The 101 Greatest Business Principles of All Time."

from Associated Press: Editor-anthologist Les Pockell dies at 68

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