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John Robert Ferrone (August 14, 1924 – April 10, 2016) was an American book editor. He edited The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty and The Color Purple.

Life

He was born in Morristown, New Jersey and was raised in Rockaway Boro, New Jersey by his Italian immigrant parents. He served in World War II on Guam. He graduated from Colorado College, and Stanford University. He worked for Dell Publishing, and Harcourt, Brace & World. He retired in 1990. He was an editor to: Anais Nin, Alice Walker, Eudora Welty, C.S. Lewis, Janet Flanner, and James Beard, for whom he served as literary executor. His partner for 43 years was the South African diplomat and United Nations employee Johan Theron, who died in 2002.

Alice Walker's letters are at Emory University. Eudora Welty's letters are at The Dobkin Family Collection of Feminism.

References

1. Weber, Bruce (2016-04-16). "John Ferrone, Editor of Eclectic Stable of Writers, Dies at 91". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-04-28.
2. "Voices From The Food Revolution: John Ferrone". New York University. Archived from the original on 1 June 2016. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
3. "Paid Notice: Deaths THERON, JACOBUS J. (KNOWN AS JOHAN)". New York Times. 6 August 2002. Retrieved 2016-04-28.
4. Walker, Alice (2009-04-21). "Letters to John Ferrone, 1976–1990". findingaids.library.emory.edu. Retrieved 2016-04-28.
5. "Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, Inc. | The Dobkin Family Collection of Feminism". www.glennhorowitz.com. Archived from the original on 2016-05-14. Retrieved 2016-04-28.

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