Longtime book editor Chuck Adams has died. He worked at Algonquin for 17 years, where one of his earliest acquisitions was Sara Gruen’s Water for Elephants, and he was presented with the Poets & Writers’ Editor’s Award in 2013. After retiring from Algonquin, he continued to work as a freelance editor. He started his publishing career at Holt, Rinehart and Winston, first taking editorial assignments at Dell and then Simon & Schuster, where he worked with Joseph Heller, Mary Higgins Clark, James Lee Burke, Clive Cussler, Sandra Brown, and Jackie Collins, among many others. Little, Brown writes: “Chuck was a friend […]
