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- Birth nameJason Wolkow Epstein
- Jason Epstein was born on August 25, 1928 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He is known for Bail Jumper (1990), Un alma pura (1965) and The 50 Year Argument (2014). He was married to Judith Miller and Barbara Epstein. He died on February 4, 2022 in Sag Harbor, New York, USA.
- SpousesJudith Miller(1993 - February 4, 2022) (his death)Barbara Epstein(1953 - 1990) (divorced, 2 children)
- American editor and publisher.
- Editor and publisher who helped pioneer the trade paperback industry. At his first publishing job at Doubleday, he proposed publishing classic literature in inexpensive paperback editions. (Up til then, most paperbacks released in the US were lowbrow escapist fiction.) He also worked at Alfred A. Knopf and Random House.
- A 1949 graduate of Columbia College, he was hired by Bennett Cerf at Random House, where he was the editorial director for forty years.
- At Columbia University, he received a bachelor's and a master's degree, both in English literature.
- In 1963, during the New York City newspaper strike, he co-founded "The New York Review of Books", with his then-wife, Barbara Epstein, Elizabeth Hardwick and Robert Lowell.
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