ROME — A U.S. publishing executive passedaway in a boating mishap off Italy’s Amalfi Coast, her business stated Friday.
Adrienne Vaughan, 45, was president of Bloomsbury Publishing’s U.S. branch, which counts authors varying from bestselling authors Sarah J. Maas and Susanna Clarke to historian Mark Kurlansky amongst its lineup of authors.
A Bloomsbury book, “Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South,” by the late Winfred Rembert (as informed to Erin I. Kelly), won the Pulitzer Prize for bio in 2022.
Vaughan, who had a master’s degree in company from New York University, had worked at the Disney Book Group and Oxford University Press amongst other business priorto signingupwith Bloomsbury in 2020 as executive editor and COO. She was promoted to president a year lateron and likewise served on the board of the market trade group the Association of American Publishers.
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