Dan Frank, Influential Pantheon Editor, Dies at 67
By Jim Milliot
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May 25, 2021
Dan Frank, editorial director of Pantheon since 1996, died on May 24 in New York City at the age of 67. The news of Frank's death was announced by Reagan Arthur, executive v-p and publisher of Knopf Pantheon Schocken.
"For decades, Dan has been the public face of Pantheon, setting the tone for the house and overseeing the list," Arthur wrote in her staff memo. "He had an insatiable curiosity about life and, indeed, that curiosity informed many of his acquisitions. As important as the books he published and the authors he edited, Dan served as a mentor to younger colleagues, endlessly generous with his time and expertise. Famously soft-spoken, a 'writer’s editor,' and in possession of a heartfelt laugh that would echo around the thirteenth floor, he was so identified with the imprint that some of his writers took to calling the place