OUR IMPRINTS
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.
Colin Fox, Senior Editor
Areas of interest: wide range of fiction and nonfiction, including thrillers, mystery, politics, sports, business, narrative nonfiction, pop culture, humor, and current events.
He has edited such notable authors as Stephen Hunter, James Carville, Matthew Reilly, David Baldacci, Matt Labash, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Lou Dobbs, Tucker Carlson, David Cross, Billy Crystal, Andrew Grove, Andrew Ferguson, and Donald E. Westlake, among others.
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David Rosenthal, Executive Vice President & Publisher
David Rosenthal was named Executive Vice President and Publisher of Simon & Schuster, part of the Simon & Schuster Trade Division, in September 1997. He is responsible for the editorial and publishing activities of the imprint.
During his tenure at S&S, Rosenthal’s imprint has published hundreds of New York Times’ bestsellers including John Adams by David McCullough, Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton, Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin, A Mind at a Time by Dr. Mel Levine, Einstein by Walter Isaacson and Mad Money by Jim Cramer. Prior to joining Simon & Schuster, Rosenthal was Sr. Vice President and Publisher of Villard Books, a division of Random House, as well as executive editor of Random House proper. He began his publishing career at Random House in 1985 as an editorial consultant. Among the authors he has edited and published are Jon Krakauer, James Carville, Nicholson Baker, Martin Cruz Smith, Hunter S. Thompson, Bob Dylan, Robert Harris, Richard Ben Cramer, Valerie Plame Wilson, Henry Beard and Jan Morris. Before entering the publishing world, Mr. Rosenthal had a distinguished career in journalism, serving as Executive Editor of New York Magazine and Managing Editor of Rolling Stone.
Mr. Rosenthal was born in New York City. He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife and two children.
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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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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.
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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.
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.
Amanda Murray, Senior Editor
Areas of interest: Literary and commercial fiction, memoir, general nonfiction
Authors include: Tarquin Hall, Rebecca Barry, Stephen McCauley, Mary Higgins Clark, Simon Doonan, Zoe Carter, Bruce Eric Kaplan, Matteo Pericoli, Robert M. Parker Jr.
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.
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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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