Richard Robinson, longtime CEO of children’s publishing giant Scholastic, has died at 84. The publishing house announced that Robinson died Saturday, but did not release further details. The publis…
The publishing house announced that Robinson died Saturday, but did not release further details. The publisher said that Robinson was in excellent health.
Robinson is originally from Pittsburgh and graduated from Harvard College, where he graduated magna cum laude with membership to the prestigious Phi Beta Kappa society. He was the son of Maurice R. Robinson, who founded Scholastic in 1920 as a single classroom magazine. The younger Robinson was named president of Scholastic in 1974, CEO in 1975, and board chair in 1982. Robinson began his career as a high school English teacher in Evanston, Illinois.
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