H. STANLEY HART II ’52

H. STANLEY HART II, an author, bookseller, and real estate broker, died May 15, 2010. He was 80. A member of Psi Upsilon, he was the grandson of Francis B. Upham of the class of 1885, the nephew of Francis B. Upham Jr. of the class of 1915, and the cousin of the late Francis B. Upham III ’45 and the late Hayward Upham ’50. He served in the U.S. Air Force. A trade editor for Little, Brown & Co. for several years, he persuaded many well-known authors to publish their work with the company. He later opened The Red Cat, a bookstore in West Tisbury on Martha’s Vineyard. In the late 1970s he left the business side of publishing to write his own books, many of which dealt with his own life and with life on the Vineyard, and since 1993 had been a real estate broker. Survivors include two daughters, three sons, and a nephew, Wesley A. Look ’02.