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 more than ten years. Some of the books he edited before joining S&S include Karl Marlantes’s Matterhorn, Andrew Ferguson’s Land of Lincoln, Rafe Esquith’s Teach Like Your Hair’s on Fire, William J. Bernstein’s A Splendid Exchange, and Joe McGinniss Jr.’s The Delivery Man.
At S&S, 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. His authors include Nicholson Baker, Michael Bamberger, Henry Beard, Jane Black, Rinker Buck, Ed Caesar, Ian Caldwell, Christopher Cerf, Tom Clavin, Brent Cunningham, Bob Drury, the Folger Shakespeare Library, John Forte, A.A. Gill, Tarquin Hall, J.C. Hallman, Bruce Handy, Mark Jacobson, Boris Kachka, Bruce Eric Kaplan, David Kinney, Paul Malmont, Farhad Manjoo, Andrea Mays, Larry McMurtry, Susan Orlean, Vincent Passaro, Pearl Jam, Joan Ryan, Peter Sagal, John Shiffman, Alan Shipnuck, Martin Cruz Smith, Lisa Taddeo, Anthony Tambakis, and Don Winslow, as well as the estates of Joseph Heller and Hunter S. Thompson.
Born and raised in a small town near Pittsburgh, Jofie is a member of the AAP’s International Freedom to Publish Committee, a contributing editor to Poets & Writers magazine, and a former professional golfer. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter.
