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Marysue Rucci is joining Scribner as v-p, publisher and editor-in-chief of a new imprint, Marysue Rucci Books. Rucci will begin at Scribner on September 7, and her authors will be published on the Scribner list beginning with the Summer 2022 season.
Rucci has been at Simon & Schuster for 24 years, and Scribner senior v-p and publisher Nan Graham called her "a singularly effective advocate for her books who is among the most respected and successful editors in the publishing industry. Her relationships with in-house colleagues, agents, booksellers, and other influencers are exceptional. She is one of those rare editors whose range spans from bestsellers to distinguished, award-worthy works.... Her facility and flair as an editor of bestselling suspense, literary fiction, and memoir will complement and build upon areas of publishing in which Scribner has historically excelled."
Among authors Rucci has worked with are Mona Awad, Mary Higgins Clark, Alafair Burke, Alice Elliott Dark, Nelson DeMille, Jessica Knoll, Lisa Lutz, Megan Miranda, and Cara Wall. (In one of the best lines in these kinds of announcements, Graham added that Rucci "also managed to survive working up close with Dr. Hunter S. Thompson.")
Among fiction titles Rucci has published are Little Bee by Chris Cleave, The Need by Helen Phillips (longlisted for the National Book Award in Fiction), We Are Not Ourselves by Matthew Thomas, White Ivy by Susie Yang (a selection of the Read with Jenna/Today Show Book Club), Run Me to Earth by Paul Yoon (longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction) and The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave. Nonfiction titles include The House at Sugar Beach by Helene Cooper, Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes, The Bright Hour by Nina Riggs and Good and Mad by Rebecca Traister. Two of her upcoming S&S titles are Smile by Sarah Ruhl and The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman.
Rucci's shift to Scribner also represents a kind of homecoming: she earlier was an editorial assistant at Scribner.