Monday, February 1, 2010 || 7pm ||
Alan Rinzler, Consulting Editor
Book Passage – Corte Madera
51 Tamal Vista Dr., Corte Madera
Alan Rinzler began as a book editor in 1962 at Simon and Schuster and has since worked as Senior Editor at the Macmillan Company, Senior Editor at Holt, Director of Trade Book Publishing at Bantam Books, Associate Publisher and Vice President of Rolling Stone Magazine, and President of the Rolling Stone Book Division Straight Arrow Books. He was also West Coast Editor for the Grove Press, Editor of the Berkeley Monthly, and for the past 17 years has been Senior Editor and then Executive Editor of Jossey-Bass, an imprint of John Wiley & Sons.
Alan has edited and published such authors as Toni Morrison, Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Robbins, Claude Brown, Oscar Acosta, Shirley MacLaine, Robert Ludlum, Irv Yalom, Jerzy Kosinski, Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan, Clive Cussler, and others.
Rinzler is Academic Director of Trade Book Publishing for the Stanford University Professional Publishing Courses at Stanford University, and lives in Berkeley, where he worked for many years on the Berkeley Police Department Mobile Crisis Mental Health Team doing street crisis intervention, which he says was excellent graduate training for his ongoing work with authors.
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