[AP via WGN]

Stephen Rubin, publisher of 'The Da Vinci Code' and other
blockbusters, dies at 81

Stephen Rubin, a longtime publishing executive with an eye for bestsellers and
a passion for music and public life who helped launched the career of John
Grisham, among others, and released such blockbusters as "The Da Vinci Code"
and "Fire and Fury," has died. He was 81.

Rubin died Friday at a hospital in Manhattan after "a brief and sudden
illness," according to his nephew, David Rotter.

Book publishing is hard to imagine without the raspy-voiced Rubin, a powerful
and colorful presence for decades with his tortoiseshell glasses, stylish suits
and wide range of friends and colleagues, from Jacqueline Kennedy to Beverly
Sills. He hosted memorable parties at his spacious West Side apartment and was
a prime source of gossip and alternately profane and loving assessments of
friends, colleagues and the greater world.
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[a] unless of course, you read the cheat-sheet book by my
doppleganger, which I just now discovered was made into
a movie....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secrets_of_the_Code

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