In Memoriam
In development. This page lists deceased APHA members, honorees, speakers, and Printing History contributors. To add names to this list please use the contact form and when possible, please include a link, such as an obituary that summarizes their accomplishments.
Person | Distinction |
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Sue Allen | Scholar of historical bookbindings. 2007 Lieberman Lecturer. 1999 APHA Award laureate. Printing History contributor |
Mike Anderson | Printer and typefounder. Chesapeake chapter member |
Maurice Annenberg | Printer, businessman, entrepreneur, and author of works on the history of printing, advertising, and the graphic arts. 1976 APHA Award laureate |
Hugh Amory | Rare book library cataloguer. Author. 2002 APHA Award winner. Printing History contributor |
Anna Lou Ashby | Anna Lou Ashby, Librarian and museum curator. Former editor of Printing History |
Joseph Blumenthal | Printer and publisher, typographer, and book historian. Founder of the Spiral Press |
Lowell Bodger | Typographer, letterpress printer, educator. Former APHA New York Chapter president |
Pall Bohne | printer, binder, blacksmith. Southern California chapter member |
Catherine T. Brody | APHA founding member, former president, and trustee. Printing History contributor. Newsletter editor, 1975–1985 |
Kenneth E. Carpenter | Librarian and blbliographer. 1998 Lieberman Lecturer |
Stephen Crook | Librarian and long-time APHA Executive Secretary |
Erik Delfino | Librarian, scholar, and author. Chesapeake chapter member and former vice president |
Mike Denker | Printer, Chesapeake chapter member |
John Depol | Prominent wood engraver. Illustrator of books by several APHA members. |
Joseph R. Dunlap | Librarian. APHA founding member, former president, and trustee |
John Dreyfus | British book designer and historian of printing. 1984 APHA Award laureate. Printing History contributor |
Giovanni Favretti | Book collector and arts philanthropist |
Frank Feldman | Lawyer and Book collector. Involved with the International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR), which studies theft and forgery of art, antiquities, and rare books. |
James Eckman | Author. 1985 APHA Award laureate. Printing History contributor |
Robert D. Fleck | Oak Knoll Books and Oak Knoll Publishing. Oak Knoll won the 2008 APHA Institutional Award |
Morris Gelfand | Proprietor of the Stone House Press. Former APHA president and trustee |
James Gilreath | 1988 Lieberman lecturer |
Philip Grushkin | Calligrapher, book jacket designer and book designer. APHA founding member, former vice president for Programs, and trustee. |
Steven Harvard | Printing History contributor |
Roland Hoover | Printer/typographer, Chesapeake chapter member |
Ricky Jay | American magician, actor, bibliophile, and writer. APHA 2016 conference keynote speaker |
Herbert H. Johnson | RIT Professor, historian, scholar, educator, designer, typographer, printer. APHA founding member and former trustee. 2014 Lieberman Lecturer. Printing History contributor |
Stephen A. Kanter | Physician and bibliophile. Established the Stephen A. Kanter Lecture on California Fine Printing held bi-annually at the Clark Library, UCLA |
Sandra Kirshenbaum | Founding editor of the typographic magazineFine Print. 2001 APHA Award laureate |
Kay Michael Kramer | Book designer and fine press printer |
Jay T. Last | Physicist, entrepreneur, publisher, print and ephemera collector |
Robert L. Leslie | Physician, graphic designer, and publisher. APHA founding member. 1976 APHA Award laureate |
J. Ben Lieberman | APHA founding member and first president, 1974–1978. 1980 APHA Award laureate |
Francis O. Mattson | Librarian |
Ruari McLean | Typographic design and author. 1993 APHA Award laureate |
Marcus McCorison | Librarian, bibliographer, and scholar of early American printing. 1998 APHA Award laureate. Printing History contributor |
Ludwig Mohr | Master bookbinding, printer, and printmaker |
Henry Morris | Printer and publisher, Bird & Bull Press. 2006 Lieberman Lecturer |
Katharine F. Pantzer | Librarian and biblographer. 1995 APHA Award laureate. Printing History contributor |
Mike Parker | The type consultant, historian designer and popularizer of Helvetica. Printing History contributor |
Stephen O. Saxe | Printing history scholar, author. 1991 Lieberman Lecturer. Printing History contributor. APHA founding member, former vice president of publications, trustee, and newsletter editor, 1986–1990. |
Rollo Silver | Book collector and historian of American printing, typography, and publishing. 1977 APHA Award laureate. Printing History contributor |
Martin Speckter | Advertising executive. Creator of the interrobang. APHA founding member and former trustee |
Jack Stauffacher | Master typographer, printer, and educator. 2002 Lieberman Lecturer |
Roderick Stinehour | Master printer, founder of the Stinehour Press. 1989 APHA Award laureate. 2003 Lieberman Lecturer. Printing History contributor |
Susan Otis Thompson | Teacher, author, editor, lecturer, and researcher. APHA founding member and former trustee. Editor of Printing History, 1979–1983 |
Gene Valentine | Arizona Stae University Professor Emeritus, letterpress printer, papermaker, author, and editor. |
Peter Martin VanWingen | Librarian. Former APHA president and trustee. Printing History contributor |
Hendrik D. L. Vervliet | Librarian and historian of books and printing. 2011 APHA Award laureate. Printing History contributor |
Gregory Jackson Walters | Printer and preeminant collector of typecasting equipment |
James M. Wells | Librarian and curator |
Edwin Wolf II | Rare book librarian and historian of Colonial America. 1998 APHA Award laureate |