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Mar 28, 1936 Died on 11 May 2018 (aged 82)
American publisher
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About Peter Mayer
- Peter Michael Mayer (March 28, 1936 – May 11, 2018) was a British-born American independent publisher who was president of The Overlook Press/Peter Mayer Publishers, Inc., a Woodstock, New York-based publishing company he founded with his father in 1971.
- At the time of Overlook’s founding, Mayer was head of Avon Books, a large New York-based paperback publisher.
- From 1978 to 1996, Mayer was CEO of Penguin Books, where he introduced a flexible style in editorial, marketing, and production.
- During his tenure, he was credited with reviving the company into "the most formidable and admired publisher in the English language".
- Recently, Mayer financially revived both Ardis, a publisher of Russian literature in English, and Duckworth, an independent publishing house in the UK.
