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Stephanie Wolfe Murray
Stephanie Vivian Wolfe Murray ( Todd; 27 April 1941 – 24 June 2017) was a British publisher and charity worker, who was co-founder of the Scottish publisher Canongate Books in 1973 and ran the company until it was bought out in 1993. Early life and education Stephanie Vivian Todd was born on 27 April 1941 in Blandford Camp, Dorset, England. Her father, Hadden Royden Todd (1910–1944), was an officer in the Royal Artillery who was killed during the Battle of Normandy. Her mother, Louisa May "Wendy" Todd (née Robins; 1914–1991), "came from a wealthy family linked to the Bibby Line shipping company". Her mother remarried after the war, first briefly to a New Zealander, and then to Henry George Villiers Greer, a Northern Irishman who had been a prisoner of war in Burma. She grew up in Shropshire and was educated at Overstone School, an all-girls independent boarding school in Northampton. She left school at 16 and began to travel through Europe. She spent time in Paris, France, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Publisher
Publishing is the activities of making information, literature, music, software, and other content, physical or digital, available to the public for sale or free of charge. Traditionally, the term publishing refers to the creation and distribution of Printing, printed works, such as books, comic books, newspapers, and magazine, magazines to the public. With the advent of digital information systems, the scope has expanded to include electronic publishing, digital publishing such as E-book, e-books, Magazines, digital magazines, Electronic publishing, websites, social media, music, and video game publisher, video game publishing. The commercial publishing industry ranges from large multinational conglomerates such as News Corp, Pearson PLC, Pearson, Penguin Random House, and Thomson Reuters to major retail brands and thousands of small independent publishers. It has various divisions such as trade/retail publishing of fiction and non-fiction, educational publishing, and Academi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
