Stephen Rubin, a longtime publishing executive with an eye for bestsellers and a passion for music and public life, has died. He was 81. Rubin helped launched the career of John Grisham among others and released such blockbusters as “The Da Vinci Code” and “Fire and Fury.
NEW YORK — Stephen Rubin, a longtime publishing executive with an eye for bestsellers and a passion for music and public life who helped launched the career of John Grisham, among others, and released such blockbusters as “The Da Vinci Code” and “Fire and Fury,” has died. He was 81.
“He would enter a room and immediately fill it,” close friend Jane Friedman, the former CEO of HarperCollins Publishers, told The Associated Press via email. “He had very strong likes and dislikes and he NEVER changed his mind.
A decade later, Doubleday took on a then-obscure author who had sold few copies for Simon & Schuster but now had a promising manuscript for a religious/art thriller set in Europe. With a relentless promotional campaign, including thousands of advance copies sent to booksellers and others in the business, Dan Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code” was an immediate and lasting sensation.
In 2018, when Rubin was in his mid-70s, he had one more extraordinary ride. He was the publisher of Holt and overseer of a signature book of the Trump presidency, Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury,” which Rubin agreed to take on after meeting for cocktails two years earlier with the veteran and often controversial journalist.
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