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Dan Frank
Dan Frank (March 27, 1954 – May 24, 2021) was an American editorial director at Pantheon Books.
Frank was born in New York City to parents Joan (née Heming) and John Frank. His mother "produced TV shows for Hallmark and was director of publicity for the nonprofit Central Park Conservancy" while his father "ran a travel agency."
When Frank was in high school, he began taking night classes in philosophy at The New School, auditing Hannah Arendt's lectures and reading texts found on her syllabi. After graduating high school, he attended Haverford College, where he received a degree in philosophy in 1976. Afterward, he earned a master's degree "from the interdisciplinary program the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago."
He attended Haverford College and received a master's degree from the University of Chicago.
While working as an editorial assistant at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Frank met a Lowy, whom he married in 1982.
Frank served as the editorial director at Viking Books. During his time with Viking Books, Frank worked alongside James Gleick, publishing Chaos: Making a New Science, which became a best seller and critical success. This work "represented the sort of literary nonfiction (and fiction) that Dan would aspire to: well-informed, elegantly written, presenting complex subjects accessibly, helping readers enter and understand realms they had not known about before." Gleick continued to work with Frank throughout his career.
Frank began working at Pantheon Books in 1991 when many believe the world of publishing was on the decline, serving as the vice president and senior editor. Due to issues regarding budgeting and creative control, Pantheon had recently lost the company head, Andre Schiffrin, and many editors left with him.
From 1996 to 2020, Frank served as the editorial director, "setting the tone for the [publishing] house and overseeing the list [of potential publications]." Under Frank's guidance, "Pantheon became well known as a publisher of narrative science, world literature, contemporary fiction, and graphic novels." Frank led Pantheon Books to begin a new era in book publishing with his interest in "sophisticated comics and graphic novels." By 2000, The New York Times named Pantheon the industry leader in graphic novels.
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Dan Frank
Dan Frank (March 27, 1954 – May 24, 2021) was an American editorial director at Pantheon Books.
Frank was born in New York City to parents Joan (née Heming) and John Frank. His mother "produced TV shows for Hallmark and was director of publicity for the nonprofit Central Park Conservancy" while his father "ran a travel agency."
When Frank was in high school, he began taking night classes in philosophy at The New School, auditing Hannah Arendt's lectures and reading texts found on her syllabi. After graduating high school, he attended Haverford College, where he received a degree in philosophy in 1976. Afterward, he earned a master's degree "from the interdisciplinary program the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago."
He attended Haverford College and received a master's degree from the University of Chicago.
While working as an editorial assistant at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Frank met a Lowy, whom he married in 1982.
Frank served as the editorial director at Viking Books. During his time with Viking Books, Frank worked alongside James Gleick, publishing Chaos: Making a New Science, which became a best seller and critical success. This work "represented the sort of literary nonfiction (and fiction) that Dan would aspire to: well-informed, elegantly written, presenting complex subjects accessibly, helping readers enter and understand realms they had not known about before." Gleick continued to work with Frank throughout his career.
Frank began working at Pantheon Books in 1991 when many believe the world of publishing was on the decline, serving as the vice president and senior editor. Due to issues regarding budgeting and creative control, Pantheon had recently lost the company head, Andre Schiffrin, and many editors left with him.
From 1996 to 2020, Frank served as the editorial director, "setting the tone for the [publishing] house and overseeing the list [of potential publications]." Under Frank's guidance, "Pantheon became well known as a publisher of narrative science, world literature, contemporary fiction, and graphic novels." Frank led Pantheon Books to begin a new era in book publishing with his interest in "sophisticated comics and graphic novels." By 2000, The New York Times named Pantheon the industry leader in graphic novels.