Publishers Weekly, November 23rd, 1990
S & S Dismisses Allen Peacock Amid Author Protests
Thirteen authors, including Stanley Elkin, William Gass, John Hawkes and Robert Coover, voiced dismay this week at "the abrupt and baseless dismissal" of senior editor Allen H. Peacock by Simon & Schuster.
Their letter, a copy of which was obtained by PW, was addressed to chairman and CEO Richard Snyder.
Peacock began his career at G.K. Hall in Boston in 1980. He then moved to New York and became an assistant to Dial Press editor-in-chief Juris Jurjevics. In 1984 Peacock joined S & S at the invitation of Joni Evans, then editor-in-chief o...
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