Ballantine, Betty
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Name (Latin)
Ballantine, Betty
Other forms of name
Jones, Elizabeth, 1919-2019
Date of birth
1919-09-25
Date of death
2019-02-13
Field of activity
Publishers and publishing
Fantasy fiction, American
Editing
Occupation
Publishers and publishing
Novelists
Editors
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
MARC
MARC
Wikipedia description:
Betty Ballantine (born Elizabeth Jones; September 25, 1919 – February 12, 2019) was an American publisher, editor, and writer. She was born during the Raj to a British colonial family. After her marriage to Ian Ballantine in 1939, she moved to New York where they created Bantam Books in 1945 and established Ballantine Books in 1952. They became freelance publishers in the 1970s. Their son, Richard, was an author and journalist specializing in cycling topics.
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