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George Andreou, a v-p and senior editor at Knopf, has been appointed director of the Harvard University Press, effective at the beginning of September. He succeeds William P. Sisler, who announced in January that he was retiring at the end of the academic year after nearly 27 years as director.
Andreou has edited a range of fiction and nonfiction, including works by Nobel laureates V.S. Naipaul, Orhan Pamuk and James D. Watson; U.S. Associate Supreme Court Justices Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor; and Pulitzer Prize-winning poets John Ashbery and Peter Balakian.
In 1994, Andreou co-founded Vintage Español, an imprint dedicated to publishing select works of fiction and nonfiction in Spanish for the U.S. market. Among authors he published were Junot Díaz, Rosario Ferré and Cristina García. He has been on the faculty of the Writers’ Institute at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York since 2012.
Andreou earned an A.B. from Harvard College in 1987 in English and American literature and language. After joining Knopf in 1990 as an editorial assistant, he worked his way up the ranks and was appointed to his current role in 2005.
Provost Alan Garber commented: "The press is a leader in the world of academic publishing, and Andreou's outstanding record in trade publishing, broad understanding of the industry, and previous work with many distinguished authors made him a clear choice to steer this treasured institution into the future."