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Sean McDonald
Sean McDonald is executive editor and vice president of Farrar, Straus and Giroux and publisher of its experimental imprint, MCD/FSG. Career Authors he has edited include Sloane Crosley, Junot Díaz, Nuruddin Farah, James Frey, Gorillaz, Nicola Griffith, Aleksandar Hemon, John Hodgman, Steven Berlin Johnson, Walter Mosley, Tyler Perry, Erik Reece, David Rees, the RZA, George Saunders, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Hector Tobar, and Ellen Ullman. Prior to FSG, he worked as an Executive Editor and Vice President of Riverhead Books and before that at Nan A. Talese/ Doubleday, most notably as editor of James Frey's controversial bestselling memoir ''A Million Little Pieces''. Awards In 2003, he was named "It" editor of the year by ''Entertainment Weekly'' and a "Power Punk" (influential New Yorkers under 35) by the ''New York Observer''. In 2005 he was named a "Young Turk" of publishing by ''Publishers Weekly ''Publishers Weekly'' (''PW'') is an American weekly trade news magazine t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farrar, Straus And Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG) is an American book publishing company, founded in 1946 by Roger Williams Straus Jr. and John C. Farrar. FSG is known for publishing literary books, and its authors have won numerous awards, including Pulitzer Prizes, National Book Awards, and Nobel Prizes. the publisher is a division of Macmillan, whose parent company is the German publishing conglomerate Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. Founding Farrar, Straus, and Company was founded in 1945 by Roger W. Straus Jr. and John C. Farrar. The first book was ''Yank: The G.I. Story of the War'', a compilation of articles that appeared in ''Yank, the Army Weekly'', then ''There Were Two Pirates'', a novel by James Branch Cabell. The first years of existence were rough until they published the diet book ''Look Younger, Live Longer'' by Gayelord Hauser in 1950. The book went on to sell 500,000 copies and Straus said that the book carried them along for a while. In the early years, Straus and his wife ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |