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Effective May 4, Bruce Nichols is joining Little, Brown as senior v-p and publisher, filling the spot vacated earlier this year when Reagan Arthur moved to Penguin Random House to become executive v-p, publisher of Knopf, Pantheon and Schocken.
Nichols has been senior v-p and publisher of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt since 2009, where "he has led significant expansion of the company's range of publishing and increased revenue more than 65%," Hachette said. "Nichols oversaw the full range of adult publishing which includes fiction, nonfiction, and lifestyle books. He is recognized for publishing bestselling books in politics, history, and science, among other categories, and he has overseen publishing programs for major commercial brands including The Whole30 and the Tolkien estate."
Among authors he has worked with are Douglas Brinkley, Tim Ferriss, Adam Hochschild, Eric Lichtblau, Tim O'Brien, Cynthia Ozick, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, James Risen, Paul Theroux and Esther Wojcicki.
Before joining Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Nichols held publishing and editorial roles at HarperCollins and Free Press, and started his publishing career at Little, Brown, in the company's former college publishing division.
Hachette Book Group CEO Michael Pietsch commented: "As Little, Brown's publishing range has expanded significantly, it was important to find someone with the proven ability to publish brilliantly across many categories. Bruce has worked with great writers in literary fiction and commercial fiction and in narrative nonfiction, history, cookbooks, business, inspiration, and more. It's rare to find someone with such editorial breadth and strong business skills."
Nichols said, "I have long admired the range and strengths of the publishing program at Little, Brown, its enormously talented staff, and the spectacular writers they have brought into the world. Continuing their remarkable programs, and finding new opportunities for growth and innovation, is the challenge of a lifetime that I'm honored to accept. It's a thrill to come full circle and rejoin Little, Brown, and to lead such a sterling team."