February 16, 2009By Sarah WeinmanAlfred A. Knopf, Jr. Dies February 16, 2009By Sarah WeinmanAlfred A. Knopf, Jr., co-founder of Atheneum Publishers (leaving his parents’ company, Knopf, in 1959 to do so), died Saturday at the age of 90 from complications of a fall in mid-January. NYT ObitLogin to read full story