Wilson Will Join Atheneum Press

Thomas J. Wilson, retiring director of the Harvard University Press, has announced that he will join Atheneum, a New York publishing house, on Jan. 1.

The Press director for 20 years, Wilson must leave because of Harvard's mandatory retirement policy. He will be a vice president and senior editor at Atheneum and will work to build the publishers' list, especially in non-fiction and scholarly works.

He will also work with Atheneum's chairman, Alfred Knopf, Jr., in administration and long-range planning.

Wilson is considered responsible for the Harvard Press's sixfold increase in sales over the last two decades. He has broadened the range of Press publications, especially in the social sciences and natural sciences.

The Corporation has not yet named his successor, but he has reportedly suggested Mark S. Carroll '50, associate director of the Press.