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| Katherine Tegen | |
Katherine Tegen, v-p and publisher, Katherine Tegen Books, will be retiring in December after 40 years in publishing. She first joined HarperCollins in 1984, and after stints elsewhere--including a few years at Houghton Mifflin--rejoined the company in 2001, launching her eponymous imprint, Katherine Tegen Books, in the fall of 2003.
"Katherine and Katherine Tegen Books leave a legacy of publishing groundbreaking, commercial-literary fiction, with millions of books sold, including global blockbusters the Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage, the Gone series by Michael Grant, and the Divergent series by Veronica Roth," noted Suzanne Murphy, president & publisher, HarperCollins Children's Books.
As an editor, Tegen has worked with many award-winning and bestselling authors and illustrators, including Henry Cole, Leslie Connor, Michael Grant, Margaret Peterson Haddix, Maureen Johnson, Patricia MacLachlan, Garth Nix, Veronica Roth and Angie Sage.
Murphy noted that Tegen has also "been a trusted and beloved mentor to the many editors who have worked with her over the years and the proud publisher of their authors and illustrators under her imprint," including Mac Barnett and Shawn Harris, Charles G. Esperanza, Lisa Greenwald, Tiffany D. Jackson, Mackenzi Lee, Justin A. Reynolds and Eliot Schrefer.
Over the next few months, Tegen will work with Murphy and her team, including executive editor Ben Rosenthal and senior editor Mabel Hsu, to ensure a smooth transition for Katherine Tegen Books authors under a new, yet-to-be-named imprint.