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5 unusual facts about Peter Ruber


Arkham House

April (Rose) Derleth became president of Arkham House in 2002, having appointed Peter Ruber as her consulting editor and the successor to James Turner.

Peter Ruber

He is editing for Battered Silicon Dispatch Box all of Vincent Starrett's works, with 22 of a projected 25 volumes already in print.

He has also done much research for a biography on August Derleth (as yet unpublished) and Seabury Quinn.

As publishing executive, he came to know and publish many books by Arkham House founder August Derleth between 1962–1971, some under his Candlelight Press imprint, and has been researching his former colleague's life and time for nearly forty years.

Ruber is the author of The Last Bookman: A Journey into the Life and Times of Vincent Starrett: Journalist, Bookman, Bibliophile (NY: Candlelight Press, 1968; reprint Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, 1995) and editor of over 25 books.



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