Ashbel Green to Retire from Knopf

Ash Green is calling it quits at the end of this year. Rarely are book editors well known, but Green has been in the business for 50 years, starting as an agent, then to PR, and finally ending up as an editor, a job he was apparently made for, and it for him. He's been an editor to Ken Burns (yes, that Ken Burns), Walter Cronkite (yes, that Walter Kronkite), and Gabriel García Márquez (and, again, yes, that Gabriel García Márquez). It's the end of an era at the publishing house.