| John Geoghegan | |||||||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 1917 | ||||||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Philadelphia, US | ||||||||||||||
| Death Date: | December 28, 1999 | ||||||||||||||
| Death Place: | Walnut Creek, California, US | ||||||||||||||
| Occupation: | Publisher | ||||||||||||||
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John Geoghegan (1917 – December 28, 1999) was an American publisher.
Geoghegan was born in Philadelphia.
Geoghegan started his career as a book salesman, a job he did for 14 years.[1]
He served in the United States Army Air Corps from 1942 to 1945.[1]
In 1959, Geoghegan joined the publishers Coward-McCann in 1959 as editor-in-chief, and in 1961, became president, and then chairman.[1] The company later became Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, and he was chairman until his resignation in 1981, over the corporate business school mentality that was coming to dominate publishing.[1] Afterwards, he was an editor-at-large at William Morrow and Company from 1981 to 1982.[2] [3]
He and the literary scout Lena Wickman are credited with "discovering" John le Carré and his debut novel The Spy Who Came In From The Cold.[1] [4] [5]
Geoghegan died on December 28, 1999, in a hospital in Walnut Creek, California, of complications from a brain aneurysm.[1]
He was married to Carole, and had a daughter, Maggie Geoghegan-Bedecarre; three sons, Michael, Peter, and John; and a stepson, Arthur E. de Cordova III.[1]