André Schiffrin, a publishing force for 50 years, whose passion for editorial independence produced shelves of serious books, a titanic collision with a conglomerate that forced him out to stem losses, and a late-in-life comeback as a nonprofit publisher, died in Paris on Sunday. He was 78.
The cause was pancreatic cancer, his daughter Natalia Schiffrin said. Read more
Andre Schiffrin
(June 14, 1935 – December 1, 2013) was a French-born American author, publisher and socialist
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