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Leslie George Katz
Leslie George Katz (c. 1918 – April 18, 1997) was an author and publisher who founded Eakins Press, a specialty publisher of books of art and literature.
==Biography==
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Katz attended Black Mountain College in North Carolina, where he met his future wife Jane Mayhall.〔Dunning, Jennifer. ("Leslie George Katz, 78, Founder of Eakins Press" ), ''The New York Times'', May 4, 1997. Accessed March 22, 2009.〕 The two married in the 1940s and moved to New York City. As husband and wife, they were active participants in New York's bohemian community starting in the 1950s, and became friendly with many of the prominent artists at the time.〔Fox, Margalit. ("Jane Mayhall, Poet Who Gained Prominence Late in Life, Is Dead at 90" ), ''The New York Times'', March 19, 2009. Accessed March 19, 2009.〕
Over the course of his career, Katz wrote for publications ranging from ''Classic Comics'' to ''The Nation''. He wrote speeches for Adlai Stevenson and created plays for a Brooklyn community center. Katz was also a board member of Yaddo, the artists' community located on an estate in Saratoga Springs, New York.〔
He contributed garden statues to the Brooklyn Museum of Art that were retrieved from sites being demolished and helped arrange the Museum of Modern Art's acquisition of photographs taken by French photographer Eugène Atget.〔
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