Dutton
Overview
A focused imprint with a huge audience, Dutton turns 175 in 2027 and is part of the world’s largest English-language publisher. Dutton’s deeply discussable titles have become bestsellers, been national book club picks, and won the National Book Award. Publicity—and marketing—driven, its list of seventy books per year is half nonfiction and half fiction. Dutton’s imprints include Plume and Tiny Reparations Books.
Dutton’s roster of recent and upcoming bestselling and notable fiction authors includes Mateo Askaripour (Pure Ox), Augusten Burroughs (The Debris Field), Kristin Cashore (The Traveling House), J.M. Dalgliesh (Murder in the Cathedral), Fiona Davis (The Stolen Queen), Hank Green (A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor and An Absolutely Remarkable Thing), Tom Hindle (A Fatal Crossing), Tami Hoag (The Boy and Bad Liar), Ling Ling Huang (Natural Beauty and Second Nature), Jason Mott (Hell of a Book and People Like Us), Jo Murray (Dissection of a Murder), Jussi Adler-Olsen (No Song for the Dead), Kristen Perrin (How to Solve Your Own Murder), Jo Piazza (The Sicilian Inheritance, Everyone is Lying to You, The Parisian Heist), Ana Reyes (The House in the Pines), Riley Sager (The Unknown and The Only One Left), Adriana Trigiani (The View from Lake Como), and Catherine Walsh (How to Write a Love Story and Only One Island), among others.
Recent and upcoming bestselling and notable nonfiction authors include Sean Carroll (Something Deeply Hidden and The Big Picture ), Scott Ellsworth (The Ground Breaking and Midnight on the Potomac), Steven Gillon (America’s Reluctant Prince), John Green (The Anthropocene Reviewed), Paul Andrew Hutton (The Undiscovered Country), Andre Iguodala (The Sixth Man), Annie Jacobsen (Nuclear War and Biological War), Jon Karl (Retribution, Tired of Winning, Betrayal, and Front Row at the Trump Show), Alex Kershaw (Patton’s Prayer and Against All Odds), Denise Kiernan (Obstinate Daughters), Dr. Anna Lembke (Dopamine Nation and Radical Surrender), Des Linden (Choosing to Run and The Trail Forward), Joanne Lee Molinaro (Seven Princesses), Nick Offerman (Where the Deer and the Antelope Play and Paddle Your Own Canoe), Joe Posnanski (Why We Love Baseball and Fifty Seasons), Zachary Rubin, MD (All About Allergies and Think Like a Doctor), Jim Sciutto (The Return of Great Powers and American Retreat), Jeff Tweedy (World Within A Song, How to Write One Song, and Let’s Go So We Can Get Back), Joyce Vance (Giving Up is Unforgivable), Robert Waldinger, MD (Nothing to Fix), Chris Wallace (Countdown Battle of the Bulge and Countdown, 1960) and Carl Zimmer (Air-Borne and Life’s Edge).
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Ivan Held, President
Ivan Held is President of Putnam, Dutton, and Berkley and currently oversees business and publishing strategies for the imprints.
Ivan started his career as a bookseller in Washington, DC, before moving to the publicity department at Random House, where he worked with authors ranging from Norman Mailer to General Colin Powell. In the late 1990s he was named VP/Associate Publisher and Marketing Director for the Viking imprint of Penguin. Before returning to Penguin in 2005, he founded the Random House Trade Paperbacks imprint at Random House.
John Parsley, VP, Publisher
John Parsley is Vice President and Publisher of Dutton and its imprints Plume and Tiny Reparations. John was previously VP, Editor in Chief of Dutton, which he joined in 2017 after editorial roles at Little, Brown and Macmillan. He has edited many New York Times bestsellers, as well as books that have won or been finalists for prizes including the Aspen Book Awards, Books for a Better Life Award, Carnegie Medal, Edgar Award, Kirkus Prize, LA Times Book Prize, Lukas Prize, National Book Award, NBCC Award, NYT Notables, PEN Awards, Pulitzer Prize, and TIME 100.
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Benjamin Lee, Senior Vice President, Associate Publisher, Paperbacks & Backlist
Ben Lee joined Dutton, Putnam, and Berkley as Vice President, Associate Publisher of paperbacks in March 2015. He oversees the paperback conversion program for all of Dutton and Putnam’s books. Prior to joining Dutton, Putnam, and Berkley, Ben was most recently VP, Associate Publisher of Atria Books at Simon & Schuster, overseeing campaigns for many New York Times bestselling authors including Brad Thor, Jennifer Weiner, Vince Flynn, Theresa Caputo, Rachael Ray and Buddy Valastro.
Prior to that at Simon, he sold the warehouse clubs and later handled Target, Readerlink, B&T, Ingram and the CBA. He started his publishing career at Random House, where he worked in sales with the warehouse clubs as well as in marketing with the Information Group.
Amanda Walker, Executive Director of Publicity
Amanda Walker joined Dutton as Publicist in 2007 and was named Director in 2014. In her Dutton career, she has created and implemented bestselling campaigns for many nonfiction and fiction authors, including Hank Green, Daniel J. Levitin, Tamer Elnoury, W. Kamau Bell, Joseph Finder, Ken Follett, Tracy Chevalier, John Hodgman, and Dan Savage. In addition to managing the publicity department and developing publicity strategies for the entire list, Amanda works directly with many Dutton authors and has orchestrated publicity campaigns for breakout bestselling books including Hank Green’s #1 bestseller An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, the Parkland High School March For Our Lives Founders’ Glimmer of Hope, Clint Romesha’s Red Platoon, Jonathan Tropper’s This is Where I Leave You, and Mark Adams’ Turn Right at Machu Picchu, landing all of the respective authors on the New York Times bestseller list for the first time in their careers. Before joining Dutton, she worked at Simon & Schuster.
Stephanie Cooper, Associate Publisher and Director of Marketing
Stephanie Cooper is the Associate Publisher and Director of Marketing for Dutton, Plume, and Tiny Reparations Books. She has nearly two decades of experience marketing bestselling trade books, including literary and commercial fiction, conversation-starting narrative nonfiction and memoir, and pop culture and design books.
As head of marketing, she has overseen campaigns for bestselling franchise and award-winning authors, including Riley Sager, Adriana Trigiani, Jonathan Karl, NBA winner Jason Mott, Fiona Davis, Phoebe Robinson, Trixie Mattel & Katya, Drew Barrymore, Nick Offerman, and Lisa Gardner. Previously, as Marketing Director at HarperCollins Publishers, she led bestselling marketing campaigns for Barbara Kingsolver, Ann Patchett, Mitch Albom, Jacqueline Winspear, Mark Manson, Peggy Orenstein, and Roxane Gay, among many others. She is dedicated to leveraging the latest analytics and marketplace insights and trends to find the widest possible readership for each book.
Jill Schwartzman, VP & Executive Editor; Editorial Director, Plume
Jill Schwartzman joined Dutton in January 2012 with a mandate to acquire platform, publicity, and voice-driven nonfiction, with a focus on celebrity, pop culture, memoir, humor, music, biography, and narrative nonfiction. Recent and upcoming Dutton titles include Nick Offerman’s fifth New York Times bestseller Where the Deer and the Antelope Play, Des Linden’s Choosing to Run, Melissa Fitzgerald and Mary McCormack’s What’s Next, and Anna Lembke’s The Official Dopamine Nation Workbook. Other New York Times bestsellers at Dutton include Jeff Tweedy’s How to Write One Song, Andy Greene’s The Office, Robyn Crawford’s A Song for You, Brooke Shields’s There Was a Little Girl, Drew Barrymore’s Wildflower, and Janice Kaplan’s The Gratitude Diaries.
Jill is also Editorial Director of Plume, where she published the New York Times bestseller Subpar Parks by Amber Share, Trixie and Katya’s Guide to Modern Womanhood, as well as many other books in the pop culture, illustrated, and humor space, including Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka’s upcoming cocktail and mocktail book, Both Sides of the Glass.
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Maya Ziv, VP, Editorial Director
Maya Ziv joined Dutton in 2015, focusing on upmarket and literary fiction and select narrative nonfiction. Recent and upcoming fiction include New York Times bestselling author Riley’s Sager’s With a Vengeance, Ana Reyes New York Times bestseller The House in the Pines, Adriana Trigiani’s New York Times bestsellers, The View From Lake Como and The Good Left Undone, national bestselling author Jo Piazza’s Everyone Is Lying to You and The Sicilian Inheritance, and the New York Times bestseller This Is a Love Story by Jessica Soffer. Recent and upcoming nonfiction include Elinor Cleghorn’s A Woman’s Work and Unwell Women, Joshua Leifer’s Tablets Shattered, and Bernice McFadden’s memoir, First Born Girls.
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Emi Ikkanda, Executive Editor
Emi Ikkanda is an Executive Editor publishing a diverse list of culturally relevant nonfiction and fiction at Tiny Reparations Books, Dutton, and Plume at Penguin Random House. She has edited #1 New York Times and international bestselling authors, and edited winners or finalists for the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, Carnegie Medal, Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award, and the TIME 100. Highlights on her list include #1 New York Times bestselling author Ijeoma Oluo’s Mediocre, New York Times bestselling author Phoebe Robinson’s forthcoming Rich Auntie, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio’s National Book Award finalist The Undocumented Americans, international bestselling novelist Michael David Lukas’s The Last Watchman of Old Cairo, Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez’s For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts, Sanaë Lemoine’s New York Times Editor’s Choice The Margot Affair, national bestselling author and TIME 100 honoree Tourmaline’s Marsha, Josephine Baker’s memoir Fearless and Free, Minda Harts’s Right Within, Arianna Davis’s What Would Frida Do?, and NASA Astronaut Nicole Stott’s Back to Earth. Forthcoming authors include comedian Hari Kondabolu and New York Times Metro staff writer Dodai Stewart.
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Lara Blackman, Executive Editor
Lara Blackman joined Dutton as an Executive Editor in March 2026, with a focus on acquiring mysteries and thrillers. She’s drawn to propulsive plots, complex characters who challenge social and cultural norms, and stories that take readers to places they’ve never been.
Prior to Dutton, she held editorial positions at Simon & Schuster and Audible, where she published a range of bestselling and award-winning authors including Lucinda Berry, Jeneva Rose, Christina Lauren, Anne Helen Petersen, Tembi Locke, Wendy Walker, Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen, and many more.
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Cassidy Sachs, Executive Editor
Cassidy Sachs joined Dutton in 2017 as an Editorial Assistant and acquires across a broad range of fiction and nonfiction. Drawn to novels that lead with heart and humor and play deftly between genres, she is seeking joyful book club fiction that features strong, clever, larger-than-life characters. She also loves playful, classic-feeling mysteries and thrillers, and novels that defy the rules of genre, especially those with gothic or speculative notes. In nonfiction, Cassidy is on the lookout for expert-driven narratives that illuminate big ideas and pop-culture.
She has published national and New York Times bestsellers and has worked with award winning journalists and historians. Her books have been GMA Buzz Books, Publishers Marketplace Buzz Books, #1 LibraryReads picks, national book club picks, ALA Award Winners, Next Big Idea Must Reads, and Goodreads Choice Awards nominees. Her titles include Abigail Avis’s Wet Ink; Kristen Perrin’s How to Solve Your Own Murder; Catherine Walsh’s How to Write a Love Story; Hannah Orenstein’s Maine Characters; Tom Hindle’s A Fatal Crossing; Mariel Buque’s Break the Cycle; Els van der Helm’s Sleep Intelligence; Sona Movsesian’s The World’s Worst Assistant; and Zak Brown’s Seven Tenths of a Second.
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Pilar Garcia-Brown, Senior Editor
Pilar Garcia-Brown joined Dutton as a Senior Editor in September 2021. Previously, she worked at Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. She concentrates on fiction in multiple categories, as well as narrative nonfiction. She’s interested in voice and character-driven fiction that upends expectation or plays with genre, and is especially drawn to novels that tackle urgent, contemporary social and cultural themes in an irreverent or humorous way. On the nonfiction side, she is looking for hybrid memoir, essays, and cultural criticism, and she has a special interest in narratives about women’s sports (especially basketball and running) and how to live ethically (from our food to clothing choices and well beyond).
Pilar’s recently published titles include: the instant New York Times bestseller Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour and his sophomore novel, This Great Hemisphere; Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang, winner of the Lambda Award for Bisexual Fiction; the National Book Award-nominated collection Holler, Child by LaToya Watkins; the National Book Award-nominated essay collection Magical/Realism by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal; the New York Times Editors’ Choice Old Enough by Haley Jakobson; and Cinema Love by Jiaming Tang, winner of the LA Times Book Prize, the Edmund White Award, and a finalist for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence.
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Nick Amphlett, Senior Editor
Nick Amphlett joined Dutton as a Senior Editor in September 2024. He acquires nonfiction, with particular interest in history, politics and current events, popular science, narrative nonfiction, biography, and sports.
Prior to Dutton, he spent ten years at William Morrow, where he edited a range of leading journalists, academics, and thought leaders, including recipients of the Pulitzer Prize, Nobel Prize, and NBA Finals MVP Award.
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Lashanda Anakwah, Editor
Lashanda Anakwah is an editor at Tiny Reparations Books acquiring fiction and select non-fiction titles. She is building a list that captures a wide array of human experiences, and is drawn to edgy voice-driven commercial, book club and upmarket fiction with high emotional stakes, centered on unique characters. Smart immersive prose written with craft and wit always captures her attention, as well as themes of geographic and cultural identity. Lashanda is also looking for narrative non-fiction that answers the “why” and “how” regarding the socio-political-economic systems we are all mired in, with a clear vision of the way forward.
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Rachael Kelly, Editor
Rachael Kelly is an Editor at Dutton acquiring commercial and upmarket/book club fiction across genres—stories that combine rapid pacing, nuanced character development, compelling hooks, and complex themes. She is building a list that prioritizes both voice and plot, and gravitates toward fiction that is intriguing, romantic, escapist, suspenseful, mysterious, or psychological in nature, especially from authors with fresh perspectives and strong connections to their subject matter. Before joining Dutton in May 2024, Rachael worked at Grand Central Publishing, where she assisted with a number of New York Times bestselling authors, including Colleen Hoover, David Baldacci, and Nicholas Sparks, while building her own list. Her books have been Indie Next, LibraryReads, and Shelf Awareness picks; USA Today bestsellers; New York Times Notable Books; Publishers Marketplace Buzz Books; and Aardvark, Book of the Month, and Read With Jenna TODAY Show book club selections.
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Grace Layer, Associate Editor
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Grace Layer joined Dutton in January 2021 and acquires both fiction and nonfiction. She’s looking for exploratory, human-driven nonfiction that immerses readers in surprising and undertold stories of our history, environment, or culture. She has a soft spot for investigative journalism, travel/food narratives, and stories that dive into a propulsive mystery. On the fiction side, she’s interested in voicey novels with a secret at the heart of the plot and complex interpersonal dynamics, from commercial to literary. She loves literary mysteries that blur genre; claustrophobic small towns; obsessive friendships; messy family dynamics; moodiness; and fresh, younger takes on cozy mysteries. She also acquires for Tiny Reparations and Plume. Across her list, she is seeking stories by and about BIPOC and LGBTQ+ individuals.
Grace’s recent and upcoming titles include American Scare by Edgar Award-winning journalist Robert Fieseler, named one of Kirkus’s Best Books of 2025; A Zoom with a View by debut novelist Jess Cannon; A Chef at Last by Eric Huang, a restauranteur and former Michelin-starred sous chef; TL;DR by Dr. Erica Brozovsky, host of PBS’s Otherwords;and The Hidden Language of Cats by Sarah Brown, praised as “striking” by The Wall Street Journal.
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David Howe, Associate Editor
David Howe joined Dutton in 2024. His areas of non-fiction include health & wellness, personal development, business, psychology, pop culture, sports, science, journalism, and political science. On the fiction side, he edits thrillers and speculative fiction.
He is the editor of The Undiscovered Country, a New York Times bestseller and one of The Wall Street Journal’s Ten Best Books of 2025. Forthcoming publications include bestselling author J.M. Dalgliesh’s Murder in the Cathedral, and Nick Brucker’s White Smoke, which will be adapted for TV by A24. He is also editing professor Dale Whelehan’s book on the origins of our perception of time, Dr. Eric Verdin’s groundbreaking book on the biological rate of aging, and ABC News medical contributor Dr. Alok Patel’s parenting book for dads.
Before coming to Dutton, David was at HarperCollins and Hachette Book Group, where he worked with bestselling and award-winning authors.
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Charlotte Peters, Associate Editor
Charlotte Peters joined Dutton in 2022. She is interested in commercial genre fiction with clear, unique hooks, escapist romance simmering in magic (literal and figurative), and transportive romantasy, from dark to cozy. In nonfiction, she seeks relatable pop culture-focused works that appeal to enthusiastic fanbases, witchy lifestyle guides, and fun, quirky history. Recent and upcoming titles include the New York Times bestseller Your Favorite Scary Movie by Ashley Cullins, A Labor of Love Potion by Hannah Pettit, Season of Steel by Maia Kane A Curse for Christmas Past by Morgan Lockhart, Into the Midnight Wood by Alexandra McCollum, The Society by Karen Winn, and No Song for the Dead, by Jussi Adler-Olsen, Stine Bolther, and Line Holm.
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Ella Kurki, Assistant Editor
Ella Kurki joined Dutton in February 2023, after starting her career at Penguin Michael Joseph in London. She loves voice and character-driven fiction with unique storytelling and unpredictable characters. On the nonfiction side, she’s interested in deeply researched stories that entertain, educate, and engage with contemporary issues. Ella has editorially contributed to Cherry Lou Sy’s Love Can’t Feed You, Nina St. Pierre’s Love Is a Burning Thing, and Timothy C. Winegard’s The Horse.
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Joslyn Jenkins, Editorial Assistant
Joslyn Jenkins joined Dutton in February 2026, assisting John Parsley and Maya Ziv. Previously, she spent several years in the agency space, assisting with Books Publishing and Media Rights at CAA and The Gersh Agency. Joslyn got her start in book scouting for film and TV adaptations with This Should Be A Movie after graduating with a Film and Television degree from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She has a penchant for all things spooky and reads broadly across fiction and nonfiction.