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| Michelle Somers | |
Michelle Dana Somers, a publicist at Knopf for 14 years, died on August 24 at age 50. The publisher learned only recently of her death; Somers had lived with Type 1 diabetes since she was seven years old.
Somers was associate publicity director at Knopf from 2000 to 2014 and worked with many authors, including Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Nick Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, Toni Morrison, Carl Bernstein, Gish Jen, and Maxine Hong Kingston.
Knopf colleagues called her "a lovely woman and a dear friend, and her great enthusiasm for so many things--NPR, Duke basketball, and the theater--will be hugely missed."