In 1980, she was the first woman to win the August Derleth Award for best novel (for Death's Master) at the British Fantasy Awards. Lee wrote more than 90 novels and 300 short stories and sometimes used the pen name Esther Garber. Tanith Lee, the British science fiction, horror and fantasy writer who also wrote poetry and children's books, died on Sunday, the Bookseller reported. Her collections are Mary Ellen Mark: Portraits, Mary Ellen Mark: American Odyssey and Exposure.

Tiny: Streetwise Revisited, which will be published in the fall by Aperture, returns to the main character in the book Streetwise, one of several homeless Seattle youths she photographed in the early 1980s. She was 75.ĭuring her career, she worked for magazines such as Life and Look, did fashion photography and portraiture, and always did documentary work, focusing on, among others, 'prostitutes in Mumbai, homeless teenagers in Seattle and mental patients in a state institution in Oregon.' Her images were characterized by empathy and humanity. Mary Ellen Mark, 'one of the premier documentary photographers of her generation,' died on Monday, the New York Times reported.

His strong vision and guiding hand is exactly what BISG needs at this crucial time in our development.' Mark has extensive strategic planning experience mixed with both an easy way and a commanding presence that members will welcome. Before he joined the ECPA, he was an executive at the Christian Retail Association and a sales director for Nav Press.īISG chair Tara Catogge of Quarto Publishing, who headed the search committee, commented: 'We were pleased to find an association veteran from within our industry with a long history of success.

Kuyper has been on the BISG board for the past 10 years and has worked in the industry for nearly 30 years. He replaces Len Vlahos, who with his wife, Kristen Gilligan, is joining the management team of the Tattered Cover, Denver, Colo., with the aim of becoming majority owners in two years (see article below). Effective June 15, Mark Kuyper, president and CEO of the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association, is becoming executive director of the Book Industry Study Group.

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