Detoxified Bachelor
Morgan Entrekin to get hitched at last.
Publishing Casanova Morgan Entrekin, who runs Grove/Atlantic, is finally settling down. “I spent a long time looking,” admits Entrekin, who popped the question to photojournalist Rachel Cobb on January 1, just days before his 50th birthday. He met the 40-year-old Texan a year and a half ago and told her on their second date, “I feel like I’m with someone from the same tribe.” By their fourth date, he’d asked her to meet his family in Nashville. “That is not an invitation I would have extended to anyone,” he says. Entrekin’s been keeping the beleaguered book business glamorous since the eighties. He published the likes of Candace Bushnell and P. J. O’Rourke and has made every scene from Odeon to Bungalow 8. “He was the ultimate toxic bachelor,” says one novelist. But he and Cobb appear to be the picture of happiness. “I’ve felt nothing but contentment since getting engaged,” says Entrekin. “For everyone there comes a time. For me it took a little longer.”
—Beth Landman