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    Byron ?)– Preiss (() () Biography

    (Byron Cary Preiss)

    OBITUARY NOTICE—See index for SATA sketch: Born c. , in New York, NY; died in a car accident July 9, , in East Hampton, NY. Publisher and author. A pionjär in the area of digital publishing, Preiss was president of Byron Preiss Visual Publications and Ibooks, as well as an author of children's and adult books. With an early interest in education, he was an editor and writer for the television schema Electric Company from to , as well as an elementary school teacher in Pennsylvania. Graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in , he completed a master's degree in communications at Stanford University in From there, he was hired as head writer for American Broadcasting Company television in San Francisco, worked as a movie writer and director during the mids, and was an editor for publisher Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich from to Preiss then founded his own publishing house and quickly became a leader in publishing

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    Early life and career

    Byron Preiss graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in , and earned a master's degree in communications from Stanford Film School.

    In , while Preiss was teaching at a Philadelphia elementary school, he conceived and with Jim Steranko produced an anti-drug comic book, The Block, designed for low-level reading skills. Published by Steranko's company, Supergraphics, it was distributed to schools nationwide

    He founded Byron Preiss Visual Publications in to publish original works, including Weird Heroes (). His Fiction Illustrated series of illustrated novels began with Schlomo Raven: Public Detective, a Preiss collaboration with Tom Sutton, followed by Starfawn, illustrated by Stephen Fabian, Steranko's Red Tide and the Son of Sherlock Holmes, illustrated by Ralph Reese. Other publications included a adaptation of Alfred Bester's The

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    Entry updated 5 August Tagged: Author, Editor.

    () US book packager, anthologist and co-author of two sf/fantasy novels – Guts () with C J Henderson and Dragonworld () with J Michael Reaves – and The Bat Family ( chap; vt The Vampire State Building), a juvenile. Though he has also edited and co-edited numerous Anthologies, Preiss is best known as the most successful of the independent sf book packagers (i.e., creative middlemen who conceive projects, pitch them to publishers, commission writers, artists and others to produce the required material, etc.), founding Byron Preiss Visual Publications Inc (frequently abbreviated to BPVP) in The company's first project was the Weird Heroes anthology series – Preiss himself edited Weird Heroes #1 (anth ), Weird Heroes #2 (anth ), Weird Heroes #6 (anth ) and Weird Heroes #8 (anth ) – which early demonstrated Preiss's interest in visual presentation. Among the early BPVP projects wer