Dan Frank, adventurous book editor, dies at 67
Mr. Frank collaborated with Joseph Mitchell on what became a critically celebrated best seller in 1992.
by Alex Traub
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- Dan Frank, who as editorial director of Pantheon Books discerned in journalism and comics the potential for enduring books and introduced authors like Joseph Mitchell to tens of thousands of readers, died on May 24 in Manhattan. He was 67.
His death, at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, was caused by cancer, his wife, Patricia Lowy, said.
Running Pantheon from 1996 until last year, Frank edited books that earned critical praise, awards and rankings on bestseller lists. He edited Cormac McCarthys novel The Road (2006), which won the Pulitzer Prize, and published a translation of Marjane Satrapis illustrated memoir, Persepolis (2003), which became an acclaimed movie. He helped shape some of the historian Jill Lepores most popular books, among them The Secret History of Wonder Wom
As head of Pantheon, he nurtured prize winners and best sellers, rescued Joseph Mitchell from obscurity and helped establish graphic novels as a literary genre.