Sonny Mehta

Ajai Singh "Sonny" Mehta is a publisher and editor-in-chief of Alfred A Knopf.

He was educated at Lawrence School, Sanawar.^{[citation needed]} He is referenced in the musical The Last Five Years and is well known for moving in with Douglas Adams in order to make sure he finished his book So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish. He is also famous for buying and publishing Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho after Simon & Schuster refused to publish it at the eleventh hour. He is the son in law of Biju Patnaik, ex-CM of Orissa, having married his daughter Gita Mehta who is also a renowned writer. He is the brother -in-law of Naveen Patnaik the three term CM of Orissa.

Mehta appears in the mostly-fictional world of Lunar Park, where Bret Easton Ellis mixes fact and fiction in a pseudo-memoir.

Bibliography

Brown, Jason R. The Last Five Years. New York, 2002.