R. Miriam Brokaw, a long-time resident of Princeton, N.J., died June 19, 2012 at Meadow Lakes in East Windsor, N.J.

Born in 1917 in Kobe, Japan, she was the daughter of Presbyterian missionaries, Rev. Harvey Brokaw and Olivia Forster Brokaw.

She graduated from Wilson College in Chambersburg, PA and began her publishing career in 1945 at the Princeton University Press. During the decades of her tenure at the Press, Miriam made outstanding contributions, including her role in establishing the Princeton Library of Asian Translations. She rose to the position of associate director and editor at the Princeton Press, from which she retired in 1984.

In 1966 her alma mater, Wilson College awarded her an L.H.D., honoris causa.
From 1974 to1975 she was president of the American Association of University Presses, the first woman to hold that high office.

Awarded a Fulbright to advise the University of Tokyo Press, she spent a fruitful year doing the work she loved and reconnecting with the country where she was born.

She was predeceased by her sisters, Evelyn Brokaw Cook, Dr. Katherin Brokaw, and Frances Brokaw Leet. She is survived by a nephew, Robert Leet, two nieces, Nancy Leet Manning and Helena Leet and by several grandnieces and grandnephews.

Arrangements were private.