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For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as quality translations by award-winning translators.
Read MoreMatt Klise, Associate Editor
Matt Klise joined Penguin Books in 2015 after working as a bookseller. He is looking for narratives that engage critically with the world and that expand our understanding of our lives and one another, including works of history, science writing that distills complex research down for a general readership, and anything with a philosophical bent.
Read MoreVictoria Savanh, Associate Editor
Victoria Savanh joined Penguin Books in 2014. She edits original fiction and nonfiction, and is interested in voice-driven literary fiction, memoir, wellness, and cultural criticism
Read MoreMeg Leder, Editorial Director
Meg Leder (she/her/hers) publishes a wide range of wellness-inspired prescriptive nonfiction and voice-driven books. She is looking for projects in the wellness arena that contribute to larger cultural conversations and help readers live their lives in new ways, as well as nonfiction that delights, surprises, and entertains. Meg’s current and forthcoming list includes books by New York Times bestselling authors Keri Smith, Elaine Welteroth, Mari Andrew, Luvvie Ajayi Jones, and coloring book artist Johanna Basford, as well as poet Yrsa Daley-Ward, actress Zosia Mamet, board-certified psychiatrist Dr. Pooja Lakshmin, and thought leader Bozoma St. John.
Read MoreJohn Siciliano, Executive Editor, Penguin Classics, Penguin Books, Penguin Life, and Viking
John Siciliano is executive editor, Penguin Books and Penguin Classics. He publishes writers from around the world—classic and contemporary, famous and forgotten and first-time—and is especially interested in literary fiction, the literary supernatural, memoir, travel, cultural history, humor, food, and wellness.
Read MoreElda Rotor, Vice President and Publisher, Penguin Classics
For Penguin Books, she edited the New York Times-bestselling The Inaugural Address by Barack Obama, The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth Century American Poetry edited by Rita Dove, The Penguin Guide to the United States Constitution by Richard Beeman, and The Art of Language Invention by David J. Peterson. She has worked with a wide range of contributors including Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Guillermo del Toro, David Simon, Tom Perrotta, Rebecca Mead, James Earl Jones, Laura Miller, Francine Prose, Stanley McChrystal, Michael Dirda, Jeff VanderMeer, and Lois Lowry. Prior to coming to Penguin, Elda was a Senior Editor at Oxford University Press.
Read MorePatrick Nolan, Vice President and Publisher, Penguin Books
Patrick Nolan joined Penguin Books as Associate Publisher and Editor in Chief in 2012 after serving for twelve years as Trade Paperback Sales Director for Penguin Group. Now overseeing the editorial direction and shape of Penguin Books’ publishing program, including reprints from Viking and Penguin Press generating trade paperback bestsellers including Alexander Hamilton, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Little Fires Everywhere, and A Gentleman in Moscow as well as trade paperback originals such as The Perfect Nanny, The New Me, and Johanna Basford’s adult coloring books.
Read MoreJeramie Orton, Executive Editor
Jeramie Orton (she/her) is an associate editor at Pamela Dorman Books/Viking; she’s seeking upmarket commercial fiction (both contemporary and historical), fresh dystopian narratives, elevated rom-coms, and domestic thrillers. She is particularly keen to see stories from around the globe, as well as contemporary narratives that are rooted in, or explore the identity of, the New American South.
Read MorePamela Dorman, Senior Vice President and Publisher
Pamela Dorman is Vice President and Publisher of Pamela Dorman Books/Viking. In her more than thirty years at Penguin, Dorman has acquired and edited the multimillion-copy #1 bestsellers The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, Me Before You and The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman (a selection of the Reese Witherspoon Book Club and optioned by Witherspoon’s Hello, Sunshine for feature film), The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards, Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding, and The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard, which was the first selection of the Oprah Book Club.
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The Penguin Publishing Group is the proud publisher of great writers and gifted storytellers, beloved books and eminent works. At Penguin, we believe that literature can fuel the imagination and guide the soul. There’s a book on our shelves for every reader, and we relish the opportunity to publish across every category and interest with the utmost care and enthusiasm.
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