PEOPLE Reagan Arthur, lately SVP and Publisher at Little, Brown, has been named EVP and Publisher of Knopf, Pantheon, and Schocken. She replaces the late Sonny Mehta, who died on December 30th. Arthur will report to Maya Mavjee, who is rejoining the company as President and Publisher for the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Mavjee had…Continue Reading
PEOPLE At Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Millicent Bennett joins as Editorial Director. She had been Executive Editor at Grand Central Publishing. Sarah Pelz joins as Executive Editor, having previously held that title at Atria. George Coe, former CEO and President of Baker & Taylor, will return to Brodart Co. as President and CEO. At Crown, Libby…Continue Reading
PEOPLE Liese Mayer is joining Bloomsbury on February 27 in the newly-created role of Editorial Director, Fiction. She has been working as Editor at Scribner. John Morgan is now Executive Editor at Imprint. He was previously Senior Producer at Melcher Media, Director of Digital Publishing at Penguin, and Creative Director at DC Comics. Bernd Leukert…Continue Reading
PEOPLE Former U.S. Register of Copyright Maria Pallante has been selected as the next President and CEO of the American Association of Publishers. She will replace Tom Allen, who is retiring. Ben Sevier will join Grand Central Publishing on February 27 as SVP, Publisher, succeeding Jamie Raab. Sevier was previously VP, Publisher at Dutton. Catherine…Continue Reading
