Peter Ruber
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Peter Ruber is a United States
author, editor and publisher. He has been an advertising executive, book publisher, and for the past two decades, a consultant and free-lance journalist for many leading business information technology magazines. He lives on Long Island, New York with his wife, three sons, two grandchildren and a mountain of books and literary papers.
As publishing executive, he came to know and publish many books by Arkham House founder August Derleth
between 1962–1971, some under his Candlelight Press imprint, and has been researching his former colleague's life and time for nearly forty years.
Ruber became the editor for Arkham House
in 1997, after Jim Turner
left to found Golden Gryphon Press
. Ruber is the author of The Last Bookman: A Journey into the Life and Times of Vincent Starrett
: Journalist, Bookman, Bibliophile (NY: Candlelight Press, 1968; reprint Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, 1995) and editor of over 25 books. He has also done much research for a biography on August Derleth
(as yet unpublished) and Seabury Quinn
. He is editing for Battered Silicon Dispatch Box
all of Vincent Starrett's works, with 22 of a projected 25 volumes already in print.
In 2000 Ruber edited a collection of previously unpublished stories by H. Russell Wakefield
for Ash-Tree Press. For the same publisher in 2003 he edited Night Creatures by Seabury Quinn
.
Ruber is said to have suffered a stroke around 2002 or 2003 and his editorial duties at Arkham House
appear to have lapsed due to this.
United States
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author, editor and publisher. He has been an advertising executive, book publisher, and for the past two decades, a consultant and free-lance journalist for many leading business information technology magazines. He lives on Long Island, New York with his wife, three sons, two grandchildren and a mountain of books and literary papers.
As publishing executive, he came to know and publish many books by Arkham House founder August Derleth
August Derleth
August William Derleth was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first publisher of the writings of H. P...
between 1962–1971, some under his Candlelight Press imprint, and has been researching his former colleague's life and time for nearly forty years.
Ruber became the editor for Arkham House
Arkham House
Arkham House is a publishing house specializing in weird fiction founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to preserve in hardcover the best fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. The company's name is derived from Lovecraft's fictional New England city, Arkham. Arkham House...
in 1997, after Jim Turner
Jim Turner (editor)
Jim Turner was a United States editor and publisher. Turner was editor for Arkham House after the death of August Derleth. After leaving Arkham House, he founded Golden Gryphon Press.- Biography :...
left to found Golden Gryphon Press
Golden Gryphon Press
Golden Gryphon Press is an independent publishing company, specializing in science fiction, fantasy, dark fantasy and cross-genre novels. It was founded in 1996 by Jim Turner, former editor at Arkham House, and is currently run by his brother Gary and his wife, Geri Turner.The company has...
. Ruber is the author of The Last Bookman: A Journey into the Life and Times of Vincent Starrett
Vincent Starrett
Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett , known as Vincent Starrett, was an American writer and newspaperman.- Biography :...
: Journalist, Bookman, Bibliophile (NY: Candlelight Press, 1968; reprint Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, 1995) and editor of over 25 books. He has also done much research for a biography on August Derleth
August Derleth
August William Derleth was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first publisher of the writings of H. P...
(as yet unpublished) and Seabury Quinn
Seabury Quinn
Seabury Grandin Quinn was an American pulp magazine author, most famous for his stories of the occult detective Jules de Grandin, published in Weird Tales.-Biography:...
. He is editing for Battered Silicon Dispatch Box
Battered Silicon Dispatch Box
The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box is an independent, Canadian literary publisher, founded in 1993 by George A. Vanderburgh. Based in Shelburne, Ontario, and in Sauk City, Wisconsin, the company is headed by George Vanderburgh....
all of Vincent Starrett's works, with 22 of a projected 25 volumes already in print.
In 2000 Ruber edited a collection of previously unpublished stories by H. Russell Wakefield
H. Russell Wakefield
Herbert Russell Wakefield was an English short story writer, novelist, publisher, and civil servant chiefly remembered today for his ghost stories.-Life:...
for Ash-Tree Press. For the same publisher in 2003 he edited Night Creatures by Seabury Quinn
Seabury Quinn
Seabury Grandin Quinn was an American pulp magazine author, most famous for his stories of the occult detective Jules de Grandin, published in Weird Tales.-Biography:...
.
Ruber is said to have suffered a stroke around 2002 or 2003 and his editorial duties at Arkham House
Arkham House
Arkham House is a publishing house specializing in weird fiction founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to preserve in hardcover the best fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. The company's name is derived from Lovecraft's fictional New England city, Arkham. Arkham House...
appear to have lapsed due to this.