Crown Forum’s Publicist Switches to Harper

HarperCollins announced yesterday that Crown Forum publicity manager Campbell Wharton—having just seen his latest project, Bob Novak’s The Prince of Darkness, land on the Times bestseller list—will be joining the Harper imprint as associate director of publicty in late August. Wharton is the second significant Crown staffer to relocate to East 53rd St. this summer, after Steve Ross assumed publisher duties at Collins earlier this month.

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