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Michael Denneny -- "half pushed and half walking" -- leaves St. Martin's
In a move that shocked industry insiders, editor Michael Denneny on March 1 abruptly left St. Martin's Press, where he had worked (with a brief intermission at Crown Books) since the mid 1970s. Denneny (along with the late editor Bill Whitehead at Dutton) played the leading role in introducing mainstream publishing to gay and lesbian books. Among the many authors that Denneny edited were Randy Shilts, Ethan Mordden, Christopher Davis, John Fox, Allen Barnett, Paul Monette, Nisa Donnelly, Rabih Alameddine, and Ernesto Maestre. As part of institutionalizing gay books in the company, Denneny created the Stonewall Inn Edition imprint.
News of Denneny's departure first came in a brief PW...