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| Laurie Brown | |
Laurie Brown died peacefully yesterday at her home in Wilton, Conn., after a prolonged battle with cancer. In her final weeks, she was surrounded by family and friends and her beloved golden retrievers. She was 69.
Her career in bookselling and publishing touched many lives. With humble beginnings at the Remarkable Bookshop in Westport, Conn., her intelligence and instincts quickly became apparent to many throughout the industry. Her career spanned nearly 40 years, including stops in various sales, marketing and publishing capacities at almost every major publishing house, including Time Warner, Random House, Simon & Schuster, Farrar, Straus & Giroux and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Publishing and bookselling were Laurie's life. While a voracious reader and well recognized for her publishing instincts, she will most of all be remembered for her incredible thoughtfulness, kindness and heart.
Among her survivors are her sister Lynn Cully, v-p, publisher of Kensington Publishing, and brother-in-law David Cully, president of Baker & Taylor.