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Michael Sullivan, bookseller and longtime National Book Network executive, died on Sunday after an extended illness. He was 69.
Early in his book career, Sullivan was a bookseller at Brentano's in Williamsburg, Va., and assistant manager at the iconic Scribner bookstore on Fifth Avenue in New York City. He joined Scribner's sales team and was an account manager at Macmillan. In 1994, he joined NBN as national accounts manager and retired a year ago as v-p of sales.
Sullivan had a master's degree in creative writing, and wrote and had produced two plays off Broadway in the 1970s.
"All of us who had the good fortune to have known Michael fondly remember his warm, gracious and generous nature," Rowman & Littlefield president and CEO Jed Lyons wrote in an announcement. "Michael was a consummate book person, steeped in literature, widely read, and astonishingly knowledgeable about everything under the sun. He had a mischievous sense of humor, a twinkle in his eye, and a gift for empathy and compassion."