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Shanks Is 'PW' Person of the Year
Penguin Group (USA) CEO David Shanks is Publishers Weekly’s Person of the Year.
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Authors on the Air December 2, 2011: Rosamund Bartlett
Rosamund Bartlett, author of Tolstoy: A Russian Life (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 978-0151014385) will be on The Leonard Lopate Show.
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Job Moves: December 2, 2011
Foundry Literary + Media has announced the hiring of Rachel Hecht as foreign rights associate reporting to director Stéphanie Abou.
At Mary Anne Thompson Associates, Christine Munroe has been promoted to the position of children's book scout.
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Authors on the Air December 1, 2011: Shea Vaughn, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Richard Branson
Shea Vaughn, author of Shea Vaughn's Breakthrough: The 5 Living Principles to Defeat Stress, Look Great & Find Total Well-Being (HCI, 978-0757315930), will be on The Ellen DeGeneres Show with her son, Vince Vaughn.
Henry Louis Gates Jr., author of Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History (Knopf, 978-0307593429), will be on The Brian Lehrer Show.
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Job Moves: December 1, 2011
Dennis Campagna has been named senior v-p and chief accounting officer at Scholastic. Before joining the company, Campagna was the regional controller of Clear Channel Radio.
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Authors on the Air November 30, 2011: Frederick R. Lynch, Stephan Solzhenitzyn, Stephen Sondheim
Frederick R. Lynch was on The Exchange on New Hampshire NPR for One Nation Under AARP: The Fight over Medicare, Social Security, and America's Future (University of California Press, 978-0520268289).
Stephan Solzhenitzyn will talk about the new translation of Apricot Jam and Other Stories (Counterpoint, 978-1582436029), a collection by his father, Aleksandr.
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Job Moves: November 30, 2011
Papercutz has hired Janna Morishima for the new position of marketing director. Morishima was formerly at Scholastic and Diamond Comics.
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Authors on the Air November 29, 2011: Michael Connelly, Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, Darrell Hammond
Michael Connelly, author of The Drop (Little, Brown and Company, 978-0316069410), will be on The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson.
Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, author of No Fear: A Whistleblower's Triumph Over Corruption and Retaliation at the EPA (Chicago Review Press, 9781556528187), will be on Tavis Smiley.
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Job Moves: November 29, 2011
Rebecca T. Miller has been named editor-in-chief at School Library Journal. Miller was formerly executive editor of features for Library Journal, where she began working in 1998 as a book review editor.
Karina Mikhli has been hired as director of content development for On Demand Books. She was formerly v-p of publishing operations at Assouline Publishing.
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Obituary: Lynn Margulis
Lynn Margulis, who created Chelsea Green's Sciencewriters Books imprint along with her son, Dorion Sagan, in 2006, died on November 22 at the age of 73.
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Authors on the Air November 28, 2011: Hal Rubenstein, Robert Trivers, Merrill Markoe
Hal Rubenstein, author of 100 Unforgettable Dresses (Harper Design, 978-0061151668), will be on Dateline.
Robert Trivers, author of The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life (Basic Books, 978-0465027552), will be on The Brian Lehrer Show.
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Job Moves: November 28, 2011
Neely Kennedy has been appointed as the literary director at Reading Group Choices, as well as the book club expert and spokesperson.
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Authors on the Air November 23, 2011: Manisha Thakor
Manisha Thakor, author of On My Own Two Feet: A Modern Girl's Guide to Personal Finance (Adams Business, 978-1598691245), will be on Nightly Business Report.
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Authors on the Air November 22, 2011: Richard Preston, John Lithgow
Micro (Harper, 978-0060873028), the new book by Michael Crichton and Richard Preston, will be discussed on All Things Considered.
John Lithgow, author of Drama: An Actor's Education (Harper, 978-0061734977), will be on Tavis Smiley.
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Job Moves: November 22, 2011
Lisa Lee has joined Holiday House as director of production. She was previously senior production manager, Children's Books, at HarperCollins.
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Grimes Chosen as 2012 Grand Master by Mystery Writers of America
Martha Grimes has been chosen as this year’s Grand Master by Mystery Writers of America. Grimes will be presented with her award at The Edgar Awards Banquet, which will be held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City on Thursday, April 26, 2012. She is the author of the Richard Jury, Andi Olivier, and Emma Graham series.
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Authors on the Air November 21, 2011: Gershom Gorenberg, Lawrence Lessig
Gershom Gorenberg, author of The Unmaking of Israel (Harper, 978-0061985089), will be on The Brian Lehrer Show.
Lawrence Lessig, author of Republic Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It (Twelve, 978-0446576437), will be on Tavis Smiley.
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Obituary: John Hawkins
Literary agent John Hawkins, who had an eponymous firm, died on Sunday, November 13, at the age of 72.
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Job Moves: November 21, 2011
At Other Press, Marjorie DeWitt has been promoted to assistant editor. DeWitt has been with Other Press since 2010.
Also at Other Press, Sulay Hernandez has joined as an editor, working on literary fiction and narrative nonfiction. She was previously at Touchstone.
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Authors on the Air November 18, 2011: Peter Schweizer, Andrea Arden
Peter Schweizer, author of Throw Them All Out (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade, 978-0-547-57314-4), was on MSNBC's Morning Joe as well as on The Glenn Beck Program on the radio.
Andrea Arden will be on CBS News' Early Show on Saturday, November 19 for her book, Barron's Dog Training Bible (Barron's Educational Series, 9780764164330).
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