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Thomas McCormack is a former book-publishing executive, editor, and author who is now a playwright. == Publishing == McCormack was born in Boston, MA on January 5, 1932. When he was eight, the family moved to Stamford, CT. After showing precocity in elementary school, he went to Stamford High School where he asserts he "had a double-major of sports-and-girls" and graduated with a drab academic record. At college, a sports-injury sent him from the playing fields to his desk. In 1954 after majoring in philosophy he received a B.A. summa cum laude from Brown University, with a 4.0 Grade Point Average that was the first at Brown since before World War II. He served in the U.S. Army at the American Embassy in Rome. Upon his return he did graduate work as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Harvard. Following a period writing radio news on station WSTC in Stamford, McCormack entered book publishing. He began in 1959 at Doubleday, where he became an editor at Anchor Books, and the originating editor of Dolphin Books. He moved to Harper and Row where he started Perennial Books, then to New American Library to run Signet Classics and Mentor Books where he published Watson and Crick's "The Double Helix". Finally he joined St. Martin's Press and, eleven years after entering publishing, he was appointed the CEO. His maverick strategy – which included publishing more fiction than any other house in America – helped St. Martin's expand its annual billings from two-and-a-half-million dollars to over a quarter-billion. In the 1980s he had St. Martin's launch its own mass-market paperback line, the first hardcover house to do that since Simon and Schuster founded Pocket Books in 1939. Meantime he was editing bestsellers ranging from ''All Creatures Great and Small'' to ''The Silence of the Lambs''. In the late 1990s, after aiding in the sale of St. Martin's to the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group of Germany, McCormack resigned his role as Chairman, CEO, and Editorial Director to pursue his interest in theater. For a year McCormack maintained a role in publishing by writing a regular column for ''Publishers Weekly,'' titled “The Cheerful Skeptic”. It was a mixture of humor and protest as he examined and repudiated much of the book-industry's "conventional wisdom". He has been awarded the AAP's Curtis Benjamin Award for Creative Publishing, and the LMP's Lifetime Achievement Award. He has lectured on publishing at Princeton and Harvard. He is the author of ''Afterwords: Novelists on Their Novels'' and ''The Fiction Editor, the Novel, and the Novelist''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thomas McCormack (writer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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