1. Jason Wolkow Epstein was an American editor and publisher.
20 Facts About Jason Epstein
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Jason Epstein was the editorial director of Random House from 1976 to 1995.
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Jason Epstein co-founded The New York Review of Books in 1963.
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Jason Epstein's father, Robert, worked as a partner in the family textile business; his mother, Gladys, was a housewife.
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Jason Epstein studied English literature at Columbia University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
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Jason Epstein graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1949, before obtaining a Master of Arts the following year.
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Jason Epstein left Doubleday in 1958, frustrated at the company's refusal to publish Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel, Lolita.
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Jason Epstein joined Random House publishers, and eventually became editorial director in 1976, serving in that capacity until 1995.
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Jason Epstein worked with Ted Geisel, better known as Dr Seuss, who arrived with storyboards to recite "Green Eggs and Ham".
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Jason Epstein acquired a reputation of being rude and ridiculing other editors' suggestions.
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Jason Epstein admitted that he was a "disagreeable presence" as he had little patience with other people.
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Jason Epstein had his list of distribution contacts from Anchor Books, and Robert Lowell invested $4,000 from his trust fund to get the company started.
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In 1979, Jason Epstein took up and forwarded the critic Edmund Wilson's concept for the Library of America, well-made, reliable editions of important American writers similar to the French Pleiade editions.
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Jason Epstein later published The Reader's Catalogue of 40,000 titles available by mail order, an analog precursor of online book selling.
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Jason Epstein predicted that the Espresso Book Machine will supplant the 500-year-old Gutenberg printing press technology.
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Jason Epstein was the inaugural recipient of the National Book Award for Distinguished Service to American Letters in 1988.
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Jason Epstein was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award of the National Book Critics Circle in 2001, before being conferred the Philolexian Award for Distinguished Literary Achievement six years later.
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Jason Epstein received the Curtis Benjamin Award of the Association of American Publishers for Creative Publishing.
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Jason Epstein died on February 4,2022, at his home in Sag Harbor, New York.
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Jason Epstein was 93, and suffered from congestive heart failure prior to his death.