U.S. publishing executive dies in a boat crash off Italy's Amalfi Coast
An U.S. publishing executive has died in a boating accident off Italy’s Amalfi Coast
ROME — A U.S. publishing executive died in a boating accident off Italy's Amalfi Coast, her company said Friday. Adrienne Vaughan, 45, was president of Bloomsbury Publishing in the U.S., with authors ranging from bestselling novelists Sarah J. Maas and Susanna Clarke to historian Mark Kurlansky.
A Bloomsbury book, “Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South,” by the late Winfred Rembert (as told to Erin I. Kelly), won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 2022.
Vaughan, who had a master's degree in business from New York University, had worked at the Disney Book Group and Oxford University Press among other companies before joining Bloomsbury in 2020 as executive editor and COO. She was promoted to president a year later and also served on the board of the industry trade group the Association of American Publishers.
“Adrienne Vaughan was a leader of dazzling talent and infectious passion and had a deep commitment to authors and readers," reads a joint statement from the association's board chair, Julia Reidhead, and president and CEO, Maria A. Pallante. “Most of all she was an extraordinary human being, and those of us who had the opportunity to work with her will be forever fortunate."
The rented motorboat Vaughan and her family were on during a vacation to the popular tourist destination crashed into a sailboat Thursday, Italian state TV said.
According to Italian media reports, the motorboat, rented through a skipper, slammed into the sailboat, which was carrying dozens of U.S. and German tourists, including some celebrating a wedding.
She was pulled out of the water and brought to a dock but died by the time a
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