Julia Cheiffetz is an American publisher, writer, and editor who currently lives in

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. Cheiffetz launched One Signal Publishers, an imprint of Atria Books, a division of

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. She has published

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, Stephen Marche,

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, and Sam Wasson, whose breakout bestseller ''Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.'' was widely acclaimed.

Early life

Julia was born on September 18, 1978, in

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. She received her bachelor's degree from

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in 2000.

Career

After graduating from Barnard, Cheiffetz taught English in

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, as part of the

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. In 2002 she started her publishing career as an Editorial Assistant at

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. Cheiffetz spent the first six years of her publishing career at Random House where she published the controversial anthology ''This Is Not Chick Lit'' and the debut works of many writers including

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and Ed Park. In 2008 Cheiffetz acquired ''Devil in the Grove'' by Gilbert King which won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction and was called "a richly detailed chronicle of racial injustice" by the Pulitzer committee. The film adaptation is currently in development. From 2011 to 2014 Cheiffetz was the Editorial Director of

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. At Amazon, Cheiffetz led the New York City-based adult trade publishing team under Larry Kirshbaum, publishing

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, and

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. Cheiffetz resigned from Amazon in July 2013, and shortly after her departure other editors left the company. She later wrote about her experience in a post on Medium that went viral and helped lead to changes in Amazon's parental leave policies. In 2014 Cheiffetz was hired as Executive Editor at

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, where she commissioned and edited the ''New York Times'' best-selling book ''Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg'' by

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and

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. In August 2016 Cheiffetz commissioned a memoir by ''NBC'' correspondent

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on her time covering

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's campaign. On October 1, 2017, ''Unbelievable'' debuted at #2 on ''The New York Times'' best-seller list underneath

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's memoir '' What Happened''. In 2019 Cheiffetz founded One Signal Publishers, an imprint of Atria Books, a division of Simon & Schuster. She has stated she likes to publish books that are “nutritional candy.”

Personal life

Cheiffetz currently resides in Brooklyn with her daughter and their dog. She is on the Board of Directors of the Lower East Side Girls Club.Lower East Side Girl's Club
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Bibliography

Selected bibliography as editor

* ''This Is Not Chick Lit'' by

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(2006) * ''The Trouble with Poetry'' by

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(2007) * ''The Essential Feminist Reader'' by

Estelle Freedman Estelle Freedman (born 1947) is an American historian. She is the Edgar E. Robinson Professor in U.S. History at Stanford University She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Barnard College in 1969 and her Master of Arts (1972) and PhD ( ...

(2007) * ''Personal Days'' by

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(2008) * ''Sin in the Second City'' by

(2008) * ''How to Write a Sentence'' by

(2011) * ''Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.'' by Sam Wasson (2011) * ''Anarchy Evolution'' by

and Steve Olson (2011) * ''Till I End My Song'' by

(2011) * '' Devil in the Grove'' by Gilbert King (2012) * ''

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'' by

(2012) * '' Notorious RBG'' by

and

(2015) * ''The World According to Star Wars'' by

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(2016) * ''Forward'' by Abby Wambach (2016) * ''Sex Object'' by

(2017) * ''It's Okay to Laugh'' by Nora McInerny Permort (2017) * ''Stealing Fire'' by Steven Kotler and Jamie Wheal (2017) * ''Unbelievable'' by

(2017) * ''The Woman Who Smashed Codes'' by Jason Fagone (2017) * ''Can It Happen Here?'' by Cass R. Sunstein (2018) * ''Rabbit'' by Patricia Williams and Jeannine Amber (2018) * ''The Gambler'' by

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(2018) * ''Dear America'' by

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(2019) * ''Hoax'' by

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(2020) * ''Keep Moving'' by

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(2020)

References

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