NEW YORK – A longtime publisher who helped bring mass market and romance fiction into the mainstream and released the erotic classic "Candy" has died. Walter Zacharius was 87.
Zacharius was founder and CEO of Kensington Books. He retired from there in 2005.
Kensington spokeswoman Karen Auerbach says Zacharius died of cancer Wednesday at his Manhattan apartment. His many successes included "Candy" by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg and the romance novels of Janelle Taylor.
Zacharius became an author late in life with the novel "The Memories We Keep."
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