Author William Rosen, who was an editor and publisher at Macmillan, Simon & Schuster and the Free Press for nearly 25 years, died April 28. Rosen acquired and published bestselling and critically acclaimed books by authors such as George F. Will, Roger Kahn, Maya Lin, William J. Bennett, Lynda Barry, Bernard Lewis, Leon Kass, Donald Johansen, Kirkpatrick Sale, Norman Podhoretz, Colin Tudge and Dorothy Rabinowitz.
As an author, his books include Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire & the Birth of Europe; The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry & Invention; and The Third Horseman: Climate Change, War & the Great Famine of the 14th Century. He also has a book forthcoming from Viking in 2017 about the discovery and dissemination of antibiotics.