Jason Epstein
Epstein, Jason Wolkow
August 25, 1928 – February 4, 2022 (aged 93)
Birth place: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Columbia College Today credits 1949 graduate Epstein with 'establishing the quality trade paperback format and launching the "paperback revolution"' as 1952 creator of the imprint at Doubleday. From 1959 he led at Random House. In 1982 he founded publisher . --"Alumni Profile", May 2001 (columbia.edu) Also in 1959 Epstein co-founded Looking Glass Library ().