With the death of Sonny Mehta, the book world has lost its giant GlobeArts
Sonny Mehta, the head of Alfred A. Knopf, died Monday, Dec. 30, 2019, at his home in Manhattan, at age 77.The finest publisher in the world died this week. I’m biased, calling him that, because for the past four years – a minuscule portion of his half-century in the business – he was my publisher. But I don’t think it’s possible to have witnessed Sonny Mehta at work, to take stock of all he did in service of literature, and not conclude that the book world has lost its giant.
That this man even existed, let alone had taken an interest in my work, left me awestruck. I was terrified to talk to him. I expected something from the movies. I expected a hurricane. I met him in person a few weeks later. His office in midtown Manhattan was perhaps the only one in the Penguin Random House building to which the mandatory smoking prohibition did not apply. I walked into a room near-overrun not only with books but with the after-effects of books – promotional posters, print-outs of shortlisted cover designs, a couple of-themed wine bottles. And at the desk sat this thin, unassuming man in a turtleneck, reading.
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