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Publisher Matthew Shear dead at age 57
[August 31, 2013] NEW YORK (AP) -- A gregarious and widely loved publisher who worked with authors ranging from Doris Kearns Goodwin and Shirley MacLaine to Janet Evanovich and Augusten Burroughs has died. Matthew Shear has 57.
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Shear died Wednesday at his home in Manhattan after a three-year battle with lung cancer, according to St. Martin's Press, an imprint of Macmillan. Shear joined St. Martin's Press in 1995 and headed it since 2010. In a companywide email, Macmillan CEO John Sargent cited Shear's "outgoing personality," outsized laugh and his passion for making books succeed. A native of New York City who attended Hofstra University, Shear broke into publishing in 1977 as publicity manager for the New American Library. He spent a decade at Bantam Books and also worked at Ballantine Books and at Berkley Books. |
