Person

Epstein, Edmund L.

1931–2012

New York times WWW site, Apr. 10, 2012 (in obituary published Apr. 7: Edmund L. Epstein; b. Edmund Lloyd Epstein, Oct. 15, 1931, the Bronx; d. Apr. 1, Melville, Long Island, aged 80; literary scholar who, as a book editor in the late 1950s, was so taken by a well-reviewed but not especially popular first novel by a largely unknown British writer that he decided to reprint it in paperback, thus enabling the extravagant American success of Lord of the Flies and its author, the future Nobel Prize winner William Golding)