Overview
- Godoff died on February 24 in Albany, New York, from complications of bone cancer, her partner Annik LaFarge confirmed.
- Following her 2003 ouster in a Random House restructuring, she created Penguin Press eight days later as its founder, president and editor-in-chief.
- Under her leadership, Penguin Press published multiple Pulitzer Prize winners, including Ghost Wars, Lords of Finance, Washington, George F. Kennan, and Barbarian Days.
- She sustained deep relationships with prominent authors—editing all 10 of Michael Pollan’s books—and published writers such as Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, Thomas Pynchon, Ron Chernow, E. L. Doctorow, Tom Brokaw, and Alice Waters.
- Several titles she edited were released in the days around her death, including Pollan’s A World Appears and the memoirs A Hymn to Life by Gisèle Pelicot and Young Man in a Hurry by Gavin Newsom.