Sonny Mehta

Sonny Mehta

Ajai Singh "Sonny" Mehta is a publisher and editor-in-chief of Alfred A Knopf.

He was schooled at the one of the leading schools of India, Lawrence School, Sanawar. He is referenced in the musical The Last Five Years and is well known for moving in with Douglas Adams in order to make sure he finished his book "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish". He is also famous for buying and publishing Bret Easton Ellis's "American Psycho" after Simon & Schuster refused to publish it at the eleventh hour. He is the son in law of Biju Patnaik, ex-CM of Orissa, having married his daughter Gita Mehta who is also a renowned writer.

Mehta appears in the mostly-fictional world of "Lunar Park", where Bret Easton Ellis mixes fact and fiction in a pseudo-memoir.

Bibliography

Brown, Jason R. "The Last Five Years". New York, 2002.


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