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People Round-Up, Mid-July 2023

PEOPLE The National Coalition Against Censorship has named Lee Rowland, currently policy director at the New York Civil Liberties Union, to replace the retiring Christopher Finan as its executive director.  At Penguin Young Readers, VP, executive director, art & design Deborah Kaplan will retire in September. She has been at PYR for 31 years and…Continue Reading

People Round Up, Early August 2022

PEOPLE Two years after joining Simon & Schuster as publisher of the adult imprint, SVP Dana Canedy is stepping down to write a sequel to her memoir, A Journal for Jordan. Her sequel, which Simon & Schuster plans to publish in 2024, is currently untitled. Canedy was previously administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes. Diana Miller…Continue Reading

People Round-Up, Mid-April 2020

PEOPLE Bruce Nichols, longtime SVP and Publisher of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, is joining Little, Brown as SVP and Publisher on May 4. He replaces Reagan Arthur, who became Sonny Mehta’s successor at Knopf. Stephanie Reddaway joins as Publicist, working primarily on the Spark and Voracious imprints; she had been Associate Publicist for the Random House…Continue Reading