Morton (Morty) Mint, 80, former president and ceo of Penguin Canada and president of Penguin USA, died on January 25. Mint left corporate publishing in the 90s to start his own publisher and Mint Literary Agency. His colleagues write, “His energy, drive, imagination, humour and huge enthusiasm and support for his authors and the local book scene changed lives remarkably… Morty lived with dementia for the last decade of his life and did so without complaint but with increasing sadness that he could no longer read books or absorb long articles.”
