Stanley Baron, an editor at Thames & Hudson for many years and the author of several novels and works of nonfiction, died late last month at age 90.
Thomas Neurath, chairman of Thames & Hudson, wrote this about Baron to the company's staff:
"Sad news from Miami reached us the day before yesterday that our dear colleague Stanley Baron died in his sleep during the night of January 28th to 29th. Stanley was highly esteemed as an extraordinarily bright mind and ultra-gifted editor throughout the higher echelons of British, American and Continental publishing circles since the 1960s, and recognised as an exceptional talent in many other quarters too, from the worlds of music-making to the playing of a canny hand of bridge, we are told. These were but two of his many further passions which at one stage or another of his multitrack life he mastered to a consummate degree…
"Characteristically he made it perfectly plain to those closest to him that under no circumstances did he want the end of his life to be marked by any elaborate ceremony nor any large gathering. So those whose own lives were so enriched by his friendship, wit, intelligence and high sense of principle must find their own way, largely in private as we understand it right now, to honour him and everything that he contributed and stood for."