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John Freeman is joining Knopf as an executive editor, effective March 15. Most recently the executive editor of Lit Hub, Freeman is the former editor of Granta and the founder of Freeman's, a literary annual published in several countries around the world.
"I've long admired John's achievements as an editor and writer, and I can't wait for him to bring his excellent, adventurous, wide-ranging taste to our list, where he'll be acquiring fiction, nonfiction, and poetry," said Reagan Arthur, executive v-p, publisher of Knopf, Pantheon and Schocken, to whom he will report.
Since 2014, Freeman has edited a series of anthologies about inequality, concluding with Tales of Two Planets (published in August by Penguin Books), which focuses on the climate crisis and global inequality. He edited The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story and coedited There's a Revolution Outside, My Love, both forthcoming in 2021 (the latter from Vintage). He has written three books of nonfiction and two collections of poetry, and his work has been translated into more than 20 languages. He is also an artist-in-residence at New York University.