Congratulations to John Limb, Joe Durepos, and Ed DeStefano, who are being inducted into the Association of Catholic Publishers' Hall of Fame this Friday, February 15, during the group's 2019 Mid-Atlantic Congress in Baltimore, Md.
The Hall of Fame recognizes people who have "dedicated their careers to the Catholic publishing industry and achieved significant accomplishments that have advanced the industry." The association added that the trio have "one trait in common based on the nominations that were submitted--a generosity of spirit that they used to mentor and develop authors and other publishing professionals they worked with."
Limb worked at Oregon Catholic Press for 30 years, 25 years of which as publisher. Since his retirement in 2017, he continues to serve as OCP's publisher emeritus and on the ACP board as well as other national boards.
Durepos has been a publisher's sales rep, a bookseller at Anderson's Bookshops, a literary agent, and was executive editor, acquisitions at Loyola Press from 2002 until his retirement late last year. While there, he worked on a variety of projects and helped introduce, as the association put it, "a generation of readers to the best and brightest Jesuit/Ignatian spiritual writers of the age."
For most of his professional career, DeStefano has worked in Catholic publishing, including at Tabor, Sadlier, RCL Benziger, and Veritas. He has been, the association said, "the editorial vision behind many successful programs in catechesis while also mentoring many emerging professionals in the industry."