SVP/executive editor Terry Karten will retire on June 1 after 42 years with the company. Karten began at Harper & Row in 1980.
Jonathan Burnham, svp, publisher, writes in an announcement, “I have worked alongside Terry now for 18 of those 42 years and am in awe of her amazing dedication and commitment to her authors and her books; absolutely unwavering and endlessly painstaking and thoughtful. She has helped to make Harper the imprint it is, with its rich and distinguished backlist, and even recently, we have seen two of her books—Louise Erdrich’s The Night Watchman and Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead—win Pulitzers in 2021 and 2023, respectively. This is remarkable in itself.”