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Article: Random House Trade President Departs
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- January 17, 2003
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Dateline: NEW YORK
Ann Godoff, president, publisher and editor in chief of the Random
House Trade Group, is leaving her position amid a company reorganization,
company officials said Thursday.
Godoff, head of the group since 1997, edited such best sellers as
"Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil," by John Berendt, and "The
God of Small Things," by Arundhati Roy.
In an internal memo, Random House Inc. Chairman and CEO Peter Olson
announced that Godoff's division, whose performance he said had been
disappointing, would merge with the Ballantine Books division.
"Despite the many core publishing strengths of the Random House Trade
Group and ...