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Richard Warren Baron, the renowned 1960s owner and publisher of The Dial Press, where he presided over works by James Baldwin and Norman Mailer, and hired E.L. Doctorow as editor-in-chief, died on Sunday, May 9 of natural causes in New York City. He was 98.
His death was announced by Carole Baron, his wife of 45 years, an editor at Alfred A. Knopf.
A World War II combat veteran and POW, Richard was a lifelong fighter for social justice, he participated in the March on Washington led by Martin Luther King in 1963 and a pilot well into his 80s of his Cessna 182 plane, Richard lived on Shelter Island and in Manhattan.
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“If anyone was the perfect publisher for the 1960s, it was Richard Baron. He was totally fearless, and he backed us in every crazy thing we would do,” E.L. Doctorow, former Editor-in-Chief, The Dial Press.
Richard Warren Baron, the renowned sixties owner and publisher of The Dial Press, where he presided over works by James Baldwin and Norman Mailer, and hired E.L. Doctorow as Editor-in-Chief, died on Sunday, May 9 of natural causes at his home in New York City. He was 98.
His death was announced by Carole Baron, his wife of 45 years, an editor at Alfred A. Knopf.