Michael Leach (3)

[excerpt from author's Linked In page]
Michael Leach is editor-at-large and publisher emeritus of Orbis Books. A leader in religion book publishing for five decades, he has edited and published more than three thousand books. His authors include Nobel Prize winners, National Book Award winners, and hundreds of Catholic Book Award winners. He has served as president of the Catholic Book Publishers Association, the ecumenical Religion Publishers Group, and the PAGL Foundation. Before joining Orbis as publisher in 1997 Michael was president of the Crossroad Publishing Company, and earlier of the Continuum Publishing Corporation which he helped found in 1979. He served as vice president and senior editor of The Seabury Press from 1969 to 1979. Dubbed "the dean of Catholic book publishing" by U.S. Catholic magazine, he has also authored or edited several books of his own.