Who is Iole Lucchese, the woman inheriting Scholastic from Richard Robinson?
NY Post
It was Iole Lucchese’s smile that first won over Richard “Dick” Robinson, the powerful head of Scholastic, when the lithe brunette met him at a Canadian booksellers’ conference in 1992.
Lucchese, then 25, was an ambitious junior book-club editor at the Toronto branch of the New York-based company that would go on to earn massive profits with the publication of J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter” series, beginning in 1997. Although there were several young women in similar roles at Scholastic Canada’s Book Clubs vying for the attention of the married New York boss whenever he made his rounds of the operation, it was Lucchese who would capture his attention.More Related News