Larry Ashmead, 78, best-known for his 18 years as an editor at Harper & Row and then HarperCollins (after starting at Doubleday, working at Simon & Schuster for 15 years, and then moving to Lippincott), died of pneumonia on Friday, after battling melanoma. After retiring from Harper in 2003, Ashmead was then affiliated with InkWell Management as an agent from 2005 to 2009. (The agency also represented Ashmead’s book about funny names entitled BERTHA VENATION: And Hundreds of Other Funny Names of Real People, published in the UK by Profile.) In 1994, he was LMP’s pick for Editor of the […]