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Lyle K. Engel, 71, head of a `factory' turning out novels

Lyle Kenyon Engel, who produced books the way film producersturn out motion pictures, employing dozens of writers in a fictionfactory that churned out dozens of novels designed for mass appeal,is dead of leukemia.

He was 71 when he died Sunday at a Miami, Fla., hospital.

Mr. Engel was an anomaly in the publishing world - a visionarywith a firm grasp of popular taste who did not want to give birth towhat he had conceived.

In 1973 he formed Book Creations Inc., a "novel factory" in hishome in Canaan, N.Y., and there concocted plot lines designed for thelucrative paperback market.

Perhaps his most popular series was the "Kent FamilyChronicles," …

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