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| Greg Ruggiero with Noam Chomsky in 2012. (photo: Bev Stohl) | |
Greg Ruggiero, who joined City Lights Publishers as an editor in 2006, will leave the company at the end of August after 17 years with the company. During his tenure, he acquired and commissioned "an extensive list of books from an impressive roster of authors and activists, including the inspiring titles in the City Lights Open Media Series, for which he coined the motto, 'Arm Yourself with Information.' With a deep commitment to a vision of publishing in the service of social justice, he has contributed greatly to the ongoing impact of City Lights Publishing, where he leaves an impressive legacy," the company noted.
"It has been a great pleasure and an honor to be able to work side-by-side with Greg over the years. His advice, encouragement, and contributions to City Lights--and to the community at large--remain invaluable," said Peter Maravelis, City Lights events coordinator.
"All of us at City Lights are sincerely grateful for his many contributions, and we wish him the very best as he sets off into this new phase of his life," the publisher added.
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| Shelley Wanger (photo: Michael Lionstar) | |
At Pantheon, senior editor Shelley Wanger will retire in December after more than 30 years with the company. During the past three decades Wanger "built a legendary roster of bestselling writers and lasting books--at Pantheon, Knopf, and Doubleday--that reflect the vast scale of her interests and intellect in literature," the publisher noted.
Among the many highlights of her career was the publication of Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, which won the 2005 National Book Award for Nonfiction as well as the 2007 Prix Medicis Essais, and remains a part of the cultural conversation. Wanger edited seven of Didion's books for Knopf as well.
"There are so many reasons why Shelley is in a class by herself that it's hard to pick between superlatives--her great instincts, her amazing support for her writers, that droll sense of humor. To paraphrase Frank Sinatra, she's queen of the hill, top of the heap. Period," said Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan.
Denise Oswald, editorial director of Pantheon, commented: "For over 30 years, Shelley Wanger has shepherded some of the great intellects of our time across the Pantheon and Knopf lists and she has done so with elegance, aplomb, and a deft guiding hand, all while bringing a particular acumen to everything she touched. She has been an invaluable colleague whose grace and wit are unlikely to be matched and we will miss her terribly.”