Nan Graham will step down as publisher of Scribner at the end of the year and take a new role with the imprint, focusing on editing her existing authors and acquiring new titles for Scribner's list. Simon & Schuster will begin a search for the next publisher of Scribner.
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Graham joined S&S in 1994 as Scribner's first editor-in-chief following S&S's acquisition of Charles Scribner's Sons. She was named senior v-p and publisher of the imprint in 2012. She has edited Pulitzer Prize winners, including All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt, and The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee. Other authors she has edited include Don DeLillo, Annie Proulx, Rachel Kushner, Jennifer Egan, Colm Tóibín, and Stephen King. She also edited many major memoirs, including Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle and Steve Martin's Born Standing Up, as well as Hillary Rodham Clinton's Living History. In 2011, she received the Maxwell E. Perkins Award, presented by the Center for Fiction.
S&S CEO Jonathan Karp said, "Nan's range as an editor is extraordinary. In addition to being a great editor, Nan has been a superb publisher and generous mentor. A revered and integral part of our company, we'll continue to benefit from Nan's wisdom and multitudinous gifts in the coming years, and most importantly, so will the new and returning authors she nurtures and champions as only she can."
Graham said, "I loved being the editor-in-chief of Scribner beginning 30 years ago, and I've loved being the publisher of Scribner, building a superb team that excels in every aspect of publishing. I've been incredibly fortunate to edit my own list of stellar authors and to help launch so many transformative, bestselling, award-winning books from other Scribner editors. I'm proud of making Scribner an imprint where editors, publicists and marketers come of age and thrive, working on behalf of writers who have flourished here. Now it's time to turn my attention more fully, once again, to the writers I've worked with for years, and to finding the occasional writer new to me and to Scribner. I'll continue to champion the Scribner imprint and our singularly excellent staff and authors."