Publisher Alfred Knopf Jr. dies at age 90

AP Online | February 16, 2009 | Copyright

Alfred A. Knopf Jr., son of publishing legends and an influential publisher in his own right, died Saturday. He was 90.

Knopf died of medical complications from a fall in mid-January, his wife, Alice, said.

Knopf was the only child of Alfred Knopf and Blanche Wolf Knopf, giants in the field of publishing. He left his parents' company, Alfred A. Knopf Inc., in 1959 to co-found Atheneum Publishers along with Simon Michael Bessie and Hiram Haydn.

Among Atheneum's releases were Theodore ...

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