David Ebershoff Leaving Random to Write Full-Time

David Ebershoff

The author of The Danish Girl and The 19th Wife, David Ebershoff is leaving his position as v-p and executive editor at Random House next month to focus full-time on his career as a novelist, the AP reported.

He has worked at Random House for 20 years and edited two Pulitzer Prize winners: The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson and Embers of War by Fredrik Logevall. He has also edited books by Norman Mailer, Diane Keaton and David Mitchell.

Ebershoff's The Prodigies will be published by Random House in 2017. He has also published the novel Pasadena and the short story collection The Rose City.

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