Peter Mayer
Peter Michael Mayer (28 March 1936 – 11 May 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 .
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