Personnel

Jim Joseph has officially been named president and publisher of Globe Pequot Press after serving in that capacity on an interim basis for the last month. Previously he was COO of the company. Lawrence Dorfman has also been promoted to vice president, sales. Previously he was executive director of national accounts. Rob McMenemy has been appointed regional manager for Egmont’s Central Europe Area and Egmont Holding, Germany. He will continue as senior vice president and managing director of Egmont UK. Teresa Fogarty has been named partner in the new media and marketing strategy company BookstoFilm.tv. Erzsi Deàk has joined Editions […]

At Books-A-Million, Doug Markham has been promoted to the newly created position of executive v-p/chief administrative officer in charge of the company’s warehouse operations, information technology and human resources, as well as the oversight of BAM’s finance function. He had been the company’s CFO since 2006 and secretary since March 2008, Replacing Markham as CFO will be Brian W. White, who served as interim CEO between January-July 2008 when Markham was on deployment to active military service. Terry Finley has been promoted to executive v-p/chief merchandising officer in addition to his current responsibilities as president, Books-A-Million, Inc. merchandising group, and […]

Ray Roberts died after a short illness on Wednesday, August 12, in New York. He was 71. Roberts began his long career in publishing at the University of Chicago Press, and was an editor at Macmillan, Doubleday, Little Brown, Henry Holt and most recently at Viking, from which he retired in 2005. His many distinguished authors include Ansel Adams, David Attenborough, John Fowles, Martha Grimes, Greg Mortenson, Frances Partridge, and Thomas Pynchon.

Geri Thoma has been named as a full partner in the Elaine Markson Literary Agency has changed its name to Markson Thoma. The agency remains at 44 Greenwich Avenue in New York, and now has a website: www.marksonthoma.com. Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn were named the recipients of the 2009 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Lifetime Achievement. The prize committee also announced the finalists for its fiction and nonfiction categories, including Louise Erdrich, Ma Jian, Richard Bausch, David Grossman, Nicholson Baker, and Thomas Friedman. A winner and runner-up for both categories will be announced on September 22.Prize finalists Random House […]

Richard Poirier, founder of the Library of America and the literary journal Raritan: A Quarterly Review, died in Manhattan on Sunday at the age of 83 after a fall in his home. NYT obit Andy Ward has been named Vice President, Executive Editor of the Random House imprint of Random House Publishing Group, reporting to Susan Kamil, effective mid-September. He was most recently Executive Editor of GQ. Jessica Wiener has been named marketing director for HarperStudio, effective September 8. Previously she was with Hyperion. She replaces Sarah Burningham, who is leaving the company to concentrate on writing full-time. Angela James […]

Christie Henry has been promoted to Editorial Director for the Sciences at the University of Chicago Press. She had been Executive Editor. Jessica Olivo has been promoted to Foreign Rights Agent at Trident Media Group.