John Geoghegan (publisher)

John Geoghegan
Born	1917 Philadelphia, US
Died	December 28, 1999 Westport, Connecticut, US
Cause of death	Brain aneurysm
Nationality	American
Occupation	Publisher
Military career
Years of service	1942-1945
Editor in Chief at Coward-McCann
In office 1959–1961
President then Chairman at Coward-McCann
In office 1961–1981

John "Jack" Geoghegan (1917 – December 28, 1999) was an American publisher.

Geoghegan was born in Philadelphia.

Geoghegan started his career as a book salesman, a job he did for 14 years.

He served in the United States Army Air Corps from 1942 to 1945.

In 1959, Geoghegan joined the publishers Coward-McCann in 1959 as editor-in-chief, and in 1961, became president, and then chairman. The company later became Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, and he was chairman until his resignation in 1981, over the corporate business school mentality that was coming to dominate publishing.

He and the literary scout Lena Wickman are credited with "discovering" John le Carré and his debut novel The Spy Who Came In From The Cold.

Geoghegan died on December 28, 1999 in a hospital in Walnut Creek, California, of complications from a brain aneurysm.

He was married to Carole, and was survived by her; a daughter, Maggie Geoghegan-Bedecarre of Lafayette, California; two sons, Michael and Peter, both of Norwalk, Connecticut; and a stepson, Arthur E. de Cordova III, of Westport, Connecticut.

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