William Heyward is an Executive Editor at Penguin Press, where he acquires and edits a wide range of nonfiction and literary fiction. The authors he has edited and published include Kate Conger, Ryan Mac, James Shapiro, Jonathan Blitzer, Salvatore Scibona, Joshua Wong, Joana Avillez, Molly Young, Wolfram Eilenberger, Adrienne Raphel, Bo Seo, Yaroslav Trofimov, Elias Muhanna, A. C. Grayling, Henry Grabar, Mariana Mazzucato, Rosamund Young, and Werner Herzog. He previously worked in the editorial department of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.