Walter Minton, US publisher of ‘Lolita,‘ dies at 96. The Washington Post reports: “Walter J. Minton, a publishing scion and risk taker with a self-described ‘nasty streak’ who as head of G.P. Putnam’s Sons released works by Norman Mailer and Terry Southern among others and signed up Vladimir Nabokov’s scandalous Lolita, has died at age 96.”
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Walter J. Minton, Mailer’s Putnam Publisher, Dies at 96
Walter J. Minton, the G.P. Putnam’s Sons head who published Norman Mailer and Nabokov’s Lolita, has died at 96.
