Peter Mayer
Peter Michael Mayer (28 March 1936 – 11 May 2018) was a
British-born
American independent publisher who was president of
The Overlook Press/Peter Mayer Publishers, Inc., a
Woodstock, New York–based publishing company he founded with his father in 1971. At the time of Overlook's founding, Mayer was head of
Avon Books, a large
New York–based paperback publisher. From 1978 to 1996, Mayer was
CEO of
Penguin Books, where he introduced a flexible style in
editorial,
marketing, and production. During his tenure, he was credited with reviving the company into "the most formidable and admired publisher in the English language". Recently, Mayer financially revived both
Ardis, a publisher of
Russian literature in English, and
Duckworth, an independent publishing house in the
UK.
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