Lindsay Guzzardo joins Martin Literary & Media Management as literary manager of adult fiction. She was previously editor at Amazon Publishing before working independently.
Aria Gmitter joins Whimsy Literary Agency as literary agent. She is an editor and freelance writer and was previously literary assistant to Peter Miller of Global Lion Intellectual Property Management.
Former bookseller Bill Savran, 84, “best known for being the owner and visionary behind Savran’s Books, a Minneapolis institution near the University for more than 20 years,” died on September 20.
Awards
Rick Atkinson won the 2020 George Washington Prize for The British are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777.