Former publishing executive Malcolm Magruder died on Friday, July 11. He was 89.
Magruder's first job in publishing was with Brett-Macmillan Publishing in 1958. He subsequently had a 32-year publishing career with Frederick Praeger Publishers, Walker Publishing, Stein & Day and William Morrow and Company, where he was director of sales for nearly 10 years and the Southeastern rep for 12 years, until his retirement in 1990.
Lawrence Hughes, former president of William Morrow, said, "Malcolm thought the glass was half full even when it was about 60% empty. That enthusiasm was infectious and combined with his deep knowledge of the book trade, was a tremendous asset to William Morrow and by extension, to me in my job."
Magruder's son Munro Magruder is associate publisher of New World Library.
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Writer Andrew Mango, who "produced his most significant work, including a magisterial biography of the founder of modern Turkey, Atatürk (2000), and From the Sultan to Atatürk (2009)," after he retired from BBC World Service, died July 7, the Guardian reported. He was 88. The Guardian noted that Mango's "scholarship was impeccable, but some of his historical and journalistic interpretations were controversial, notably his belief that the military coups of 1960 and 1980 had been necessary to avoid the country slipping into civil war, and his assertion that the Armenian massacres of 1915 did not amount to genocide."