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| Harold Dillon | |
Harold Dillon, who had a 54-year career in the book business, died March 31. He was 93. Dillon began his career in the late 1940s, managing Zavelle's, an off-campus bookstore in Princeton, N.J. Subsequently, as a publisher's rep with Doubleday and Random House in Denver, his territory initially included 31% of the entire U.S. During his more than 21 years with Random House, he enjoyed calling on the healthy and vibrant independent booksellers throughout the inter-mountain west.
In 1979, Dillon retired from Random House to become the owner and operator of Dillon's Books, a paperback book distributorship in Boulder. He later went back to working as an independent rep until officially retiring at the age of 78.
Dillon was fond of quoting Barbara Tuchman: "Books are humanity in print." A private memorial will be held in Denver, Colo., on April 25.
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Uruguayan author and journalist Eduardo Galeano, "one of Latin America's leading anti-capitalist voices" whose 1971 book, Open Veins of Latin America, "rocketed to the top of U.S. bestseller lists after the Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez presented a copy to President Barack Obama in 2009," died yesterday, the Guardian reported. He was 74.
Galeano wrote dozens of works of fiction and nonfiction, with several of them being translated into as many as 20 languages. His books include the Memory of Fire trilogy, Football in Sun & Shadow and Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History.