Thomas McCormack

Thomas McCormack (1932-2024) was a former publishing executive, editor and author who became a playwright. His plays include American Roulette and Endpapers, both published by Dramatists Play Service/Concord Theatricals. Endpapers was produced in New York in the 2002-2003 season and drew the largest audience for any off-Broadway play that year, and American Roulette has been staged in numerous regional theaters in the United States and Canada. He authored Afterwords: Novelists on Their Novels and The Fiction Editor, the Novel and the Novelist. He earned a BA in philosophy from Brown University and did graduate work as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Harvard and, after a stint writing radio news, entered publishing. Eleven years later, he became the CEO of St. Martin’s Press. After leaving St. Martin’s in the late 1990s, he wrote a regular column for Publishers Weekly. He was awarded the AAP’s Curtis Benjamin Award for Creative Publishing and the LMP’S Lifetime Achievement Award.