LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jeremy P. Tarcher, whose eponymous publishing house released an eclectic wave of best-sellers ranging from Joan Rivers’ “Having a Baby Can Be a Scream” to “Bikram’s Beginning Yoga,” has died.
Penguin Group (USA), the parent company of Jeremy P. Tarcher Inc., announced that Tarcher died Sunday from complications related to Parkinson’s disease. He was 83 and died at his home in Bel Air, California, a Penguin spokeswoman told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
Tarcher, the brother of best-selling author Judith Krantz and widower of puppeteer Shari Lewis, founded his company in the early 1970s and enjoyed success with a wide range of titles. The Tarcher catalog includes Mind/Body/Spirit guides (Betty Edwards’ “Drawing On the Right Side of the Brain”), New Age favorites (“Bikram’s Beginning Yoga”) and “Celebrity Kosher Cookbook.”
