Boon, Alan Wheatley

Boon, Alan Wheatley
▪ 2001

      British book editor (b. Sept. 28, 1913, London, Eng.—d. July 29, 2000, Leicester, Eng.), built Mills & Boon, a small family publishing house cofounded by his father in 1909, into a byword for the genre of formulaic romantic novels that made the company's fortune. While relinquishing the financial end of the business to his brother, Boon devised a strict editorial formula for the escapist romantic fiction that Mills & Boon published, mainly in softcover format. He personally guided a stable of some 150 freelance women writers and continued to work after the firm was sold in 1971 to the Canadian publisher Harlequin Books. By 2000 tens of millions of Mills & Boon paperback novels were being sold in 26 languages in at least 100 markets.

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