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OUR IMPRINTS
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Priscilla Painton, Vice President & Editor in Chief
 
Priscilla Painton is the Editor in Chief of Simon & Schuster. Before assuming that position in 2008, she worked for thirty years in journalism, including as deputy managing editor of Time, where she directed the magazine’s broad coverage of the United States and the world—from the elections of presidents to the latest developments in pop culture. She began as a reporter, writing about everything from country music, Orlando, and feminism to the election of Bill Clinton. She was the magazine’s business editor, cultural editor, and science editor, but spent most of her years as its politics editor. She directed coverage ranging from the fall of Newt Gingrich to the rise of a young Illinois Senator named Barack Obama. Since joining Simon & Schuster, Priscilla has acquired a range of books, including bestselling biographies of Michelle Obama and Ted Kennedy, the secret diary of one of the most powerful Communists in China, which became an international bestseller, as well as books on history, politics, science, religion, economics, and American society.
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Bob Bender, Vice President & Senior Editor
 
Interests: acquires a wide range of mainly serious non-fiction, including biography and autobiography, history, popular science, popular culture (primarily film and music), business narrative and investing, and books about baseball. 
 
Authors include: Peter Biskind, Harold Bloom, David Blight, Benson Bobrick, Napoleon Chagnon, Gerald Clarke, James Cramer, Miles Davis, Wade Davis, David Eisenhower, Paul Ehrlich, Jonathan Eig, David Hackett Fischer, John Gierach, Miep Gies, Paul Hawken, Samuel Huntington, Reeve Lindbergh, Mario Livio, Peter Lynch, Pauline Maier, Donald Miller, Sherwin Nuland, Robert Putnam, Gilda Radner, David Roberts, James Shapiro, Jean Edward Smith, Jerry Stiller, Barry Strauss, John Thorn, and Fay Vincent.
Jonathan Karp, Executive Vice President & Publisher

 

Jonathan Karp was named Executive Vice President and Publisher of Simon & Schuster in June 2010. He is responsible for the editorial and publishing activities of the imprint.

 

Mr. Karp was previously Publisher and Editor in Chief of Twelve, an imprint of the Hachette Book Group, and Editor-in-Chief of Random House, where he began his publishing career in 1989 as an editorial assistant and worked for sixteen years.  Among the books he has acquired and edited are TRUE COMPASS by Edward M. Kennedy, GOD IS NOT GREAT by Christopher Hitchens, THANK YOU FOR SMOKING by Christopher Buckley, COLUMBINE by Dave Cullen, WAR by Sebastian Junger, SEABISCUIT by Laura Hillenbrand, SHADOW DIVERS by Robert Kurson, WHAT SHOULD I DO WITH MY LIFE? by Po Bronson, FAITH OF MY FATHERS by John McCain and Mark Salter, FRANKLIN AND WINSTON by Jon Meacham, THE ORCHID THIEF by Susan Orlean, THE LAST DON by Mario Puzo, and THE DANTE CLUB by Matthew Pearl. 

 
 
Ruth Fecych, Senior Editor
 
Areas of interest: narrative nonfiction, biography, nature, popular culture, current events
 
Authors include: Gerald Posner, Twyla Tharp, Don Rickles, David Carr, David Ritz, Valerie Plame Wilson, Richard Ben Cramer, among others.
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Sarah Knight, Senior Editor
 

Areas of interest: Literary and Commercial Fiction, Crime, Thrillers, Suspense, Narrative Non-Fiction, Memoir, Pop Culture, Humor, Travel, Food

Authors include: James Lee Burke, Stephen Hunter, M.R. Hall, Grant Ginder, Cara Hoffman, Chuck Thompson, Will Lavender.

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
Kerri Kolen, Senior Editor
 
Areas of interest: Narrative Non-Fiction, Memoir, Humor, Commercial Fiction
 
Authors include: Carrie Fisher, Andy Borowitz, Mary McNamara, Jay Mohr, RM Johnson, Susie Essman, Greg Fitzsimmons, TJ Forrester, Hoda Kotb, Dorothy Hearst, Crystal Renn.
 
Sarah Hochman, Senior Editor
 
Areas of interest: Literary Fiction, General Nonfiction, Mystery/Thriller, Biography/Memoir
 
Authors include: Bruce Wagner, Nicholson Baker, Julie Hecht, John Lanchester, Daniel Mendelsohn, Marisa Silver, Don Winslow, Robert Littell, David Rabe, Eric Bogosian, Jean Thompson, Chuck Barris, AA Gill, Jeffrey Frank, Gary Greenberg, Jed Mercurio, Bill Flanagan, Allegra Huston, Howard Jacobson, The Folger Shakespeare Library.
 
Roger Labrie, Senior Editor
 
Areas of interest:  History (military, political), politics, current events, general non-fiction
 
Authors include:  Jeff Guinn, Sidney D. Kirkpatrick, Todd Gitlin and Liel Leibovitz, Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson, Geoffrey C. Ward, Roy Morris, Jr., Barrett Tillman, Bill Sloan, David A. Nichols, Tim Shorrock, David Clary, Walter Stahr.
 

Simon & Schuster was founded in April 1924 when Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster pooled their resources and published Simon & Schuster's first book, The Cross Word Puzzle Book, packaged with a pencil. What was a revolutionary idea at the time went on to become a runaway bestseller and a modern publishing company was launched.

In its early years, Simon & Schuster achieved commercial success from such groundbreaking mega-sellers as Will and Ariel Duran's The Story of Philosophy and Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People. Simon & Schuster, Inc. has since grown into a large publishing house with many divisions, but the Simon & Schuster trade imprint has remained as a cornerstone of the company and one of the most venerated brand names in the world of publishing. More >

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Alice Mayhew, Vice President & Editorial Director
 
Areas of Interest: Politics, History, General Nonfiction
 
Authors include: Jonathan Alter, Taylor Branch, Christopher Dickey, Frances Fitzgerald, Harold Holzer, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Walter Isaacson, David Maraniss, Kati Marton, Sylvia Nasar, Hannah Pakula, Richard Reeves and Bob Woodward, C.J. Chivers, David Michaelis, Ben Bradlee, Robin Wright, William Shawcross, Richard Stengel, Amy Wilentz, Sally Quinn among many others.
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Ben Loehnen, Senior Editor

Ben Loehnen, Senior Editor at Simon & Schuster, acquires non-fiction across a range of subjects, including business, psychology, science, nature, religion, narrative non-fiction, and memoir.  He has edited books in positions at Hyperion, Random House, and HarperCollins, and has edited a long list of writers, including Bruce Barcott, Rachel Botsman, Tim Brown, Jean Chatzky, Ross Douthat, Justin Fox, David and Tom Gardner, Chip and Dan Heath, Linda Himelstein, Eamon Javers, Jeff Jarvis, Ken Jennings, Cacilda Jethá, Larry Kramer, Scott McCartney, Jeffrey Pfeffer, Andrew Potter, Jim Rogers, Roo Rogers, Christopher Ryan, Michael Schuman, and John Zogby. A graduate of Harvard College, he lives in Manhattan.

Jofie Ferrari-Adler, Senior Editor

Jofie Ferrari-Adler joined Simon & Schuster as a senior editor in 2010. Previously an editor at Grove/Atlantic, Viking Penguin, and the independent house Four Walls Eight Windows, he has been a book editor for ten years. Jofie acquires both fiction and narrative nonfiction, with an emphasis on politics, current affairs, modern history, military history, sports, and a range of narrative journalism. The many authors he has worked with include Chris Ayres, Michael Bamberger, Christopher R. Beha, William J. Bernstein, Jerome Charyn, Tom Clavin, Bob Drury, Rafe Esquith, Andrew Ferguson, Tim Flannery, Roya Hakakian, Bill Heavey, Dan Jenkins, David Kinney, Allan J. Lichtman, Karl Marlantes, Joe McGinniss Jr., George Plimpton, David Vann, and Sloan Wilson, as well as the estates of Richard Condon, John Gregory Dunne, Samuel Fuller, Abbie Hoffman, and Sue Kaufman. Born and raised in southwestern Pennsylvania, Jofie is a member of the AAP’s International Freedom to Publish Committee, a contributing editor to Poets & Writers magazine, and a recovering professional golfer. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter.