Editor Nan Graham has been named senior v-p, publisher of Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. She will report to Scribner president Susan Moldow, who said: "As if Nan hadn't amply proven how deserved this promotion is by her firm hand in shaping the list and staff and insuring the growth of the Scribner imprint over the last 18 years, her performance of late surely demonstrates that she continues to exercise her singular editorial instincts, abilities, and leadership qualities at the highest levels. Her tireless work and shining insights for every book on the Scribner list have made Nan's contribution to the success of the imprint paramount."
Graham was the 2011 recipient of the Center for Fiction's Maxwell E. Perkins Award. In addition to serving as Stephen King's longtime editor, Graham has edited a distinguished list of authors that includes Don DeLillo, Anthony Doerr, Amy Hempel, Miranda July, Rachel Kushner, Frank McCourt, Annie Proulx, Susanna Sonnenberg, Dana Spiotta, Colm Tóibín, Kate Walbert and Jeannette Walls.
More recently she acquired and edited Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, which won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, as well as the bestselling debut novel The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman. Graham also edited Andrew Solomon's Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity.
"One of the great benefits of creating our new publishing organization is that it allows us to give Nan Graham, the very model of an outstanding editor and publishing executive, an even greater role at Scribner," said Carolyn Reidy, S&S president and CEO. "All of us at S&S and throughout our industry have marveled at how she has led the editorial team these many years, and are eager to see her at the helm."
