About Bunim & Bannigan
The publishing firm, Bunim & Bannigan, Ltd. was formed in NYC in 2005, by Paul Williams, a publisher, and James Munves, an author. Williams, who sadly died in 2010, brought to the company more than twenty-five years experience at Random House, Grove Press, Rizzoli International, Routledge, and Overlook Press. He received a BA in English and Philosophy from Haverford College and, in 1997, founded Herodias, Inc., an award-winning publisher in the humanities. He was Executive Director of NAIPR, the National Association of Independent Publishers Representatives, an industry trade group.
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Paul William
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Jim Munves
Munves formed the publishing company when he discovered that many of his super-annuated friends who had been widely published decades before, were finding it difficult even to have their works read. Among the firm’s early acquisitions was Eliot Asinof’s Final Judgment, a novel that criticizes celebrity publishing, and a collection of William Walden’s light verse. Other titles, such as the award winning translation of Oblomov, resulted from more conventional circumstances. He is a member of New York’s Kairos Peace Community. Since William’s passing, he has directed B&B’s affairs from its Canadian office in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. He was born in New York City in 1922, is a graduate of Brown University, and served in France during WWII with the Fourth Armored Division of the Third Army.