Kathy Hourigan, vp & managing editor at Knopf Doubleday, will retire in December. Hourigan joined Knopf in 1963.
Archives for October 2023
Obituary: Ed Young
Children’s book illustrator and author Ed Young, 91, died on September 29 in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY. Young illustrated more than 100 children’s books, including Jane Yolen’s The Emperor and the Kite, which received a Caldecott Honor in 1968. He also wrote and illustrated Lon Po Po, which won the Caldecott Medal in 1991, and Seven Blind Mice, which received a 1993 Caldecott Honor.