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Walter Meade (born September 20, 1930, in Cincinnati, Ohio) grew up on a farm in Indiana and was the eldest son of Doctor Walter W. Meade and Hilda Meade. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1952 from DePauw University. His younger brother was Linton Meade.

Publisher
Walter Meade is best known as a former President and CEO of Avon Books, then a subsidiary of the Hearst Corporation.

Walter Meade began his career in advertising in New York City for Batten, Barton, Durstine and Osborne before becoming an Articles Editor at Cosmopolitan magazine under Helen Gurley Brown. He later became Managing Editor of the Reader's Digest Condensed Book Club. While Managing Editor at the Reader's Digest, Meade was instrumental in the development of an endowment fund to provide five libraries in the New York area with the funds to purchase new books to expand their holdings. The beneficiary libraries were Chappaqua Library, Bedford Free Library, Briarcliff Manor Public Library, Mt. Pleasant Library and Ossining Public Library. .

In 1963, Meade returned to Cosmopolitan as Managing Editor. In 1976, Meade was made Vice President and Editor-In-Chief of Avon Books, eventually becoming President and CEO in 1981.

While President of Avon Books, Meade published All the President's Men, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Your Erroneous Zones, Oliver's Story, and Love Story, among many other titles. . From 1984 to 1985, he served as a member of the Board of Directors of The Association of American Publishers.

Publisher Charles Scribner III said of him “He was directly responsible for many outstanding bestsellers (The Thornbirds, The Final Days, Watership Down among others) as well as for developing a highly successful Latin American Writers program including García Márquez, Borges, Cortazar and Amado, for launching new writers such as Ishmael Reed and refrerence works such as the Oxford English Dictionary.” Meade purchased this desk dictionary version of Oxford’s great 13 volume dictionary in 1980 for “a very considerable sum” and published it as a trade paperback.

Writer
As a writer published under the name W. W. Meade, his short stories have appeared in adult Collier's, The Saturday Evening Post, Texas Quarterly, Gentlemen’s Quarterly, Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, Redbook and many other national magazines. From 1995 to 2009, he was a frequent contributor to the series of books Chicken Soup for the Soul. In 2001, Meade wrote the novel Unspeakable Acts, published by Upstart Press. This title remains available through Amazon Kindle under the title A Road Not Taken. Walter Meade now lives in Sarasota, Florida and is at work on a new novel while contributing to the Sarasota Herald Tribune.

Short Stories

 * January 1960 - Julia, Redbook, page 38
 * October 1960 - Long Shot, Cosmopolitan, page 94
 * November 1960 - The Voices of Adam, Cosmopolitan, page 107
 * December 1960 - The Boy Who Stayed Behind, page 91
 * March 1962 - A House on Elm Street, Cosmopolitan, page 101
 * November 1962 - A Whole Other World, Cosmopolitan, page 102
 * February 1963 - Native Stone, Cosmopolitan, page 93
 * July 1963 - The Chocolate Rabbit, Cosmopolitan, page 91
 * January 1964 - In Case of Indians, Redbook, page 55
 * November 1964 - One of A Kind, Ladies Home Journal, page 84
 * January 30, 1965 - An Error of Judgment, Saturday Evening Post, page 49
 * April 1965 - Girl in the Motel, Cosmopolitan, page 85
 * Summer 1965 - The Great Lady, Gentlemen's Quarterly, page 105
 * September 1965 - Someplace Wonderful, Cosmopolitan, page 101
 * November 1965 - Apartment in the Village, Cosmopolitan, page 100
 * April 1974 - One the Son, Now the Father, Reader's Digest, page 135
 * September 1996 - A Handful of Blackberries, Reader's Digest, page 113
 * January 1997 - A Dog as Free as the Wind, Reader's Digest, page 103

Non-Fiction

 * September 1975 - What we learned from the Master Craftsmen, Ford Times, page 8
 * December 1988 - The Perilous Lure of Obsessive Love, Cosmopolitan, page 170
 * December 1988 - How to Be a Supporting Player When you Know You Were Born a Star, Working Woman, page 103
 * February 1990 - The Uncharted Adventure of Marriage, McCall's, page 96
 * August 1995 - Every Man's Worst Sexual Fear, Reader's Digest, page 151