"Elizabeth Jones, 'Betty' Ballantine, passed away on Tuesday, February 12 at her home in Bearsmouth, New York."

Ballantine Books is the US paperback publisher of Tolkien's works. Betty was instrumental in getting the paperback rights back in 1965 as Ace was putting out their unauthorized copies of The Lord of the Rings.


http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2019/ ... rback-pioneer-dead-at-99/