Colleen Lawrie to Join Bloomsbury US as Editorial Director of Nonfiction
Colleen Lawrie will join Bloomsbury US in the newly created role of editorial director of nonfiction for adult trade, effective March 4. Lawrie comes to Bloomsbury from Hachette Book Group's PublicAffairs imprint, where she most recently served as editorial director.
At PublicAffairs, which she joined in 2015, Lawrie acquired in the areas of history, culture, social science, business, science, psychology, and narrative nonfiction. Her titles include Mike Duncan's The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic and Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution, as well as The Freaks Came Out to Write: An Oral History of the Village Voice by Tricia Romano, For the Culture: The Power Behind What We Buy, What We Do, and Who We Want to Be by Marcus Collins, and The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet by Michael Mann.
At Bloomsbury, Lawrie will report to publisher Nancy Miller, and Anton Mueller, Harriet LeFavour, and Morgan Jones will report to Lawrie.
