Bernard J. Geis

Bernard J. Geis (August 30, 1909 – January 8, 2001) was an American editor and publisher who founded the now-defunct Bernard Geis Associates, which published and promoted several best-sellers in the 1960s and 70s, including Jacqueline Susann's ''Valley of the Dolls'' and Helen Gurley Brown's ''Sex and the Single Girl'' and David Wilkerson's ''The Cross and the Switchblade''. Provided by Wikipedia