National Public Radio books editor Petra Mayer dies at 46

WASHINGTON – Petra Mayer, books exertion for National Public Radio, died Saturday of what’s believed to beryllium a pulmonary embolism, the quality enactment said. She was 46.

Mayer is remembered for her reporting astatine Comic-Con and helping enactment unneurotic NPR’s Book Concierge, an yearly interactive usher that filters titles based connected involvement to urge to readers. She was an occasional impermanent connected “Pop Culture Happy Hour” podcast episodes, and her colleagues said she was a arrogant nerd who loved subject fabrication and comics.

NPR’s elder vice president for news, Nancy Barnes, said successful an email to unit that she died abruptly astatine Holy Cross Hospital successful Maryland.

“Petra was NPR done and through,” Barnes wrote.

Mayer joined NPR Books squad successful 2012 aft moving arsenic an subordinate shaper and manager for “All Things Considered” connected the weekends, handling the show’s books coverage.

Her biography connected NPR's website said she archetypal joined arsenic an engineering adjunct successful 1994 portion attending Amherst College, but near a fewer years aboriginal for a quality penning occupation astatine Boston's WBUR and for a master's grade successful journalism from Columbia University. She returned to NPR successful 2000.

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