RiP André Schiffrin

3 December 2013 Books+Publishing

French-born US publisher, editor and author André Schiffrin has died, aged 78. Schiffrin joined Random House imprint Pantheon Books in 1962, rising to become its editor-in-chief and managing director. At Pantheon, Schriffrin championed the work of European and US writers and thinkers, including Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel Foucault, Simone de Beauvoir,...