Talk:John Turner Sargent
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This article's dates are severely confused[edit]
I am an employee of US Macmillan, so I shouldn't be editing this article. However, I have met and spoken with John Sargent many times, and while I've never asked him his age, I find it flatly unbelievable that he's 72 years old, as he would be if he were in fact born in 1941 as this article says.
In addition, this article states that "By 1965 he was working as a business associate in the publishing division of Doubleday & Company." But the cited source says he was in this position by _1985_.
A 2010 blog article called "Five Things about Macmillan CEO John Sargent" (at http://booksonmars.blogspot.com/2010/02/five-things-about-macmillan-ceo-john.html) says Sargent was born in 1957 -- much more believable. The first comment to the article claims to be from Sargent himself, affirming the article's factuality.
Someone not employed by Macmillan should re-research and fix this article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pnh (talk • contribs) 10:48, 31 July 2013 (UTC)