Personnel

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.

Elizabeth Mason has been promoted to Senior Publicist in the S&S publicity department. Prior to joining S&S in 2007 as a publicist, she worked at Public Affairs, Routledge Publishers, and National Geographic Society. Mandy Ferguson will take over as managing director of Harlequin Mills & Boon, effective September 1, replacing Guy Hallowes, who will retire after 20 years with the company. Previously she was managing director of Ryvita.