Duvall Hecht, who spun the tedium of his daily commute into a cottage industry as founder of Books on Tape, a company that converted the written word into recorded sound and helped popularize the ...

Duvall Hecht, who has died at age 91, hatched his idea for Books on Tape in the mid-1970s while stuck in Los Angeles traffic. Entrepreneur, who has died at age 91, hatched his business idea in the ...

Duvall Hecht, whose boredom at listening to music and news on the radio during his long daily commute in Southern California led him to start Books on Tape, which broadly commercialized the ...

Duvall Hecht, Olympic gold medalist whose daily grind to L.A. led to Books on Tape, dies at 91 Feb. 18, 2022 at 9:26 pm Updated Feb. 18, 2022 at 11:46 pm By ...