Mark Henry Gates, 57, died last Friday of lung cancer. A longtime Midwest sales rep for Farrar, Straus and Holt, Gates was PW’s “rep of the year” in 2006. A CarePages notice says that “with tongue-in-cheek, he referred to himself as ‘the Willy Loman of the book trade’ and claimed more benefit and conviviality in taking a client to lunch than in filling out a sales report.” In the PW piece from 2006, FSG sales director Spenser Lee said: “Mark is an avid reader, champion of the smaller books, master storyteller and great advocate for his accounts and publishers. But […]
