• About Free Press •
Free Press is one of 6 imprints that comprise the Adult Trade Division of Simon & Schuster. Led by Publisher Martha K. Levin and Editor-in-Chief Dominick V. Anfuso, Free Press publishes approximately 70 new titles per year and boasts a list of bestselling and critically acclaimed authors including Aravind Adiga, Will Allison, Ernest Becker, Peter Bergen, Valerie Bertinelli, Kate Braestrup, Marcus Buckingham, Richard A. Clarke, Dr. Francis Collins, Stephen R. Covey, Richard Dawkins, Harry Dent, Robert Draper, Carlos Eire, Lee Eisenberg, Mikal Gilmore, Natalie Goldberg, Sam Harris, Chris Hedges, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Mark Kriegel, Peter Manseau, Dr. Phil McGraw, Ben Mezrich, Stephen Mitchell, Joel Osteen, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Michael E. Porter, James Risen, Dr. Michael Roizen, Ann Rule, Shelby Steele, David Talbot and Daniel Yergin.
With a distinguished history that spans more than 50 years of publishing ground-breaking, influential and controversial books, Free Press publishes non-fiction and fiction for the general reader in hardcover and paperback. The imprint has a well-deserved reputation for publishing in a wide range of categories including politics, current affairs, biography and memoir, history, religion, narrative nonfiction, business and self-help, as well as fiction by some of today’s most cutting edge writers.
Free Press titles generate news and win critical acclaim. In 2003, Free Press published two of the five finalists for the non-fiction National Book Award, one of which, Waiting for Snow in Havana by Carlos Eire, won. Finalists for National Book Critics Circle awards include Ron Powers’ Mark Twain, James Tobin’s Ernie Pyle’s War, John D’Emilio’s Lost Prophet and Joshua Clark’s Heart Like Water. FP titles won two of the 2006 Books for a Better Life awards—The Faith Club and The Number by Lee Eisenberg. The Language of God by Francis Collins was awarded a 2006 Christopher Award and was selected by Library Journal as one of the best science books of 2006. Pistol a biography of Pete Maravich by Mark Kriegel was named the best sports biography of 2007 by Sports Illustrated. And a first novel, The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga won the 2008 Man Booker Prize.
With more than 55 New York Times bestsellers in the last 9 years, Free Press has demonstrated a consistent commitment to publishing the very best writers in every category.