Putnam Adds Conaway and Kahan, Plus More Personnel News New Putnam president Ivan Held has moved quickly to bolster the imprint’s editorial staff, hiring Dan Conaway away from Harper as executive editor, and adding Rachel Kahan, who was at Crown since 1997, as a senior editor. Both will start at Putnam on June 1. Separately, Kris Puopolo has been given the new position of senior editor for Doubleday Broadway (she was at just Broadway), reporting to Bill Thomas and taking on additional responsibility for acquiring serious nonfiction for the Doubleday list. Puopolo already edits Pulitzer winner Anne Applebaum, along with […]
