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Walter Zacharius (October 16, 1923 - March 2, 2011) was an American publisher associated with Lancer Books and Kensington Books, publishers of genre fiction.

Walter Zacharius started his career in the world of true-confession magazines with Macfadden Publications, working on magazines like True Confessions and True Story. He later teamed up with Aaron A. Wyn at Ace, where he helped create Ace Double Novels and founded Kensington Books in 1974. As of 2011, Kensington was the largest independent publisher of mass-market titles in the United States.

Although the company occasionally published literary fiction, its profit and reputation lay whithin genre fiction, publishing such titles as the Conan the Barbarian series and The Man From O.R.G.Y.. Other notable publications include Candy by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg, which had been published in Paris by Maurice Girodias and was unprotected by copyright in the United States. At the time of its publication, the cover read “Not one word changed! This is the ORIGINAL, UNCUT and UNEXPURGATED EDITION as first published and banned in Paris.”



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