Ann Godoff, an editor and publisher for Penguin Press, died on Feb. 24 in Albany, N.Y. She was 76.
Godoff died from complications of bone cancer in a hospital, her partner, Annik LaFarge confirmed to the New York Times.
Godoff spent more than three decades as the head of Random House, nurturing the careers of numerous novelists and nonfiction writers. Her more celebrated authors include Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, Ron Chernow, E.L. Doctorow, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Thomas Pynchon, Tom Brokaw, William Styron and Alice Waters.
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At Random House, Godoff was named executive editor in 1991 and rose to editor-in-chief and
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