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After 17 years as director of the Harvard University Press, Arthur J. Rosenthal announced yesterday that he will leave Harvard in May to become publisher of the Hill and Wang division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux...
Rosenthal, who founded Basic Books in 1949 and whom his colleagues credit with building the Harvard University Press' reputation to one of the nation's finest after signing on in 1972, said "age 70 is a normal year when people leave in this business...
President Derek C. Bok praised Rosenthal for restoring the Press' financial health and for publishing such a distinguished list of books during his tenure. "We are all greatly in his debt," Bok said...
Yale University Press Director John G. Ryden '61 said Rosenthal's successor must sustain Harvard's commanding position in the university press industry...
...Arthur Rosenthal made Harvard the flagship University Press in the U.S.," said Aida D. Donald, editor-in-chief of the Harvard University Press. "We will miss him tremendously, but he leaves us very strong, and, like him, we have great faith in the future of the Press...