Dutton

Overview

A small list with a huge audience, Dutton is a boutique imprint within the largest English-language publisher in the world. Publicity—and marketing—driven, its focused list of less than fifty books per year is half fiction and half nonfiction. Dutton’s imprints include Caliber and Plume.

Dutton’s roster of bestselling fiction authors includes Jennifer Chiaverini, Linda Fairstein, Joseph Finder, Lisa Gardner, Tami Hoag, Eric Jerome Dickey, Jonathan Tropper, Riley Sager, and Fiona Davis among others.

Bestselling nonfiction authors include Mark Adams (Turn Right at Machu Picchu), Sean Carroll (The Big Picture and The Particle at the End of the Universe), Maria Goodavage (Soldier Dogs and Top Dog), Daniel Levitin (This Is Your Brain on Music and The Organized Mind), Clinton Romesha (Red Platoon), Nick Offerman (Good Clean Fun, Gumption and Paddle Your Own Canoe), Mark Owen (No Easy Day and No Hero), Craig Unger (House of Trump, House of Putin), Drew Barrymore (Wildflower), Adam Makos, Larry Alexander, Alex Kershaw, Jonathan W. Jordan, Major Dick Winters, Hugh Ambrose, and Seth Meyerowitz.

History of Dutton

Edward Payson Dutton founded a bookselling firm in Boston in 1852, but it wasn’t until 1864 that the eponymous E. P. Dutton & Co. began to publish books in earnest. Its original focus was on religious titles, and the first bestseller was the two-volume The Life of Christ by Frederic W. Farrar, published in 1874.

In 1885, John Macrae began working at Dutton as an office boy; he would spend fifty-nine years with the company, rising in the ranks. He became President in 1923, and in 1928, he bought the publishing house and shared it with his two sons. During Macrae’s tenure, E. P. Dutton published notable books such as The Proper Bostonians by Cleveland Amory,Shakespeare of London by Marchette Chute, The Conquest of Everest by Sir John Hunt, and Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan, as well as works by Lawrence Durrell, Milton Glaser, and Luigi Pirandello. The company went on to publish books by John Irving (The World According to Garp), James Beard, Peter Matthiessen, Jorge Luis Borges, Gavin Maxwell, Joyce Carol Oates, Gore Vidal, Gail Sheehy (Passages), Ayn Rand, and Mickey Spillane. Dutton joined the Penguin Publishing Group in 1986, and in 2015 became an imprint of the newly merged Penguin Random House.

Featured Authors

Nick Offerman

Lisa Gardner

Jeff Tweedy

Hank Green

Joseph Finder

Linda Fairstein

Daniel Suarez

Carl Zimmer

Meg Gardiner

John Irving

Fiona Davis

Meet Dutton

Ivan Held

President

Ivan Held is President of Putnam, Dutton, and Berkley. He currently oversees business, editorial, and publishing strategies for Putnam and Berkley.

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.

Christine Ball

Senior VP, Publisher

Christine Ball is Senior Vice President, Publisher for Dutton, Putnam, and Berkley. She joined Dutton in 2008 as the Director of Publicity and Marketing. She was named Vice President in 2011 and Associate Publisher in 2012. She orchestrated and navigated the publicity for the highly controversial No Easy Day, securing the first ever hour-long interview for a book on 60 Minutes. Before joining Dutton, she had previously been Director of Publicity at Crown.

John Parsley

VP, Editor-in-Chief

John Parsley oversees Dutton’s editorial department and works closely with President Ivan Held and Senior VP, Publisher Christine Ball on acquisitions. John was previously VP, Executive Editor at Little, Brown, and he has edited many New York Times bestsellers and prize winners, including works by Harlan Coben, Walter R. Borneman, Seth Casteel, Tamer Elnoury, Col. Chris Hadfield, Oakley Hall, Annie Jacobsen, Sam Kean, Beth Macy, Don Mann, Kevin Mitnick, Willie Nelson, Joshua Ramo, Mariano Rivera, Tavis Smiley, Brad Stone, Craig Unger, Max Uriarte, and Alan Weisman. Authors John has worked with have won or been finalists for the Kirkus Prize, LA Times Book Prize, Lukas Prize, NBCC Award, PEN Awards, and Pulitzer Prize.

John Parsley's Featured Titles

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Benjamin Lee

VP, Associate Publisher of Paperbacks

Ben Lee joined Dutton and Putnam 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 and Putnam, 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.

Carrie Swetonic

Executive Director of Marketing

Carrie Swetonic is the Executive Director of Marketing for Dutton. She joined Dutton in 2007 and was named Executive Director for Putnam and Dutton in 2015. In her Dutton career, she has created and implemented bestselling campaigns for Ken Follett, Harlan Coben, Lisa Gardner, Tami Hoag, Brad Taylor, Timothy Keller, Julie Garwood, and many, many others. She and her staff develop the marketing strategies for Dutton’s entire list.

Amanda Walker

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 authors as diverse as Jonathan Tropper, Daniel J. Levitin, 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 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.

Stephen Morrow

VP, Executive Editor

Stephen Morrow joined Dutton in 2006 as an Executive Editor specializing in nonfiction. He edits a wide range of science, economics, psychology, narrative nonfiction, and investigative journalism.

His authors include: Award-winning writer, music producer, and neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin, author of the influential New York Times bestseller This Is Your Brain on Music, and the #1 international and New York Times bestseller The Organized Mind; Maria Goodavage, whose New York Times bestsellers Soldier Dogs and Top Dog garnered extraordinary national media attention; acclaimed theoretical physicist and award winning author Sean Carroll, whose latest book, The Big Picture, On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself was an instant New York Times bestseller; and preeminent science journalist Carl Zimmer whose magisterial She Has Her Mother’s Laugh was hailed as a leading contender for the most outstanding nonfiction book of 2018.

Upcoming titles include Insane Mode: How Elon Musk’s Tesla Sparked an Electric Revolution to End the Age of Oil by Hamish MacKenzie; Burned: A True Story of Murder and the Crime that Wasn’t by Pulitzer prizewinning author Edward Humes; and Einstein’s War: How Relativity Conquered the World by New York University professor Matthew Stanley. Before coming to Dutton, Stephen founded the imprint Pi Press and the hard science list at Free Press, Simon & Schuster, where he began his trade publishing career.

Stephen Morrow's Featured Titles

The Big Picture

Sean Carroll

She Has Her Mother's Laugh

Carl Zimmer

Through Two Doors at Once

Anil Ananthaswamy

Insane Mode

Hamish McKenzie

The Organized Mind

Daniel J. Levitin

Jill Schwartzman

Editorial Director

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. In 2018 she was also named Editorial Director of Plume. Her 2019 and 2020 list includes See Jane Win, Caitlin Moscatello’s narrative about women running for office in 2018, Steven M. Gillon’s revealing new biography about JFK Jr., America’s Reluctant Prince, pop culture celebrations of The Office and Friends, and New York Times bestselling author Janice Kaplan’s The Genius of Women. Other New York Times bestsellers at Dutton include Drew Barrymore’s Wildflower, Brooke Shields’s There Was a Little Girl, and Jeff Tweedy’s Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back) and four books by Nick Offerman, including The Greatest Love Story Ever Told, co-written with Megan Mullally.

Before joining Dutton she was a Senior Editor at Hyperion and a Senior Editor at Random House Trade Paperbacks, where she published the trade paperback original New York Times bestsellers Stuff White People Like by Christian Lander, Gotcha Capitalism by Bob Sullivan, and White Girl Problems by Babe Walker.

Jill Schwartzman's Featured Titles

See Jane Win

Caitlin Moscatello

America's Reluctant Prince

Steven M. Gillon

Generation Friends

Saul Austerlitz

Let's Go (So We Can Get Back)

Jeff Tweedy

The Greatest Love Story Ever Told

Megan Mullally
Nick Offerman

Maya Ziv

Executive Editor

Maya Ziv joined Dutton in September 2015 as an Executive Editor focusing on commercial and literary fiction with popular appeal. Recent and upcoming titles include Hank Green’s #1 New York Times bestseller An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, Paris by the Book by Liam Callanan, Lock Every Door the latest novel from New York Times bestselling author Riley Sager, Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship by journalist Kayleen Schaefer; and The Sea Beast Takes a Lover, a debut story collection from Michael Andreasen.

Before joining Dutton, she was a Senior Editor at Harper, where her list included Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor, the New York Times bestselling novel based on the hit podcast; Roxane Gay’s New York Times bestseller Bad Feminist, and the national bestselling The Queen of the Tearling trilogy by Erika Johansen.

Maya Ziv's Featured Titles

On Being Human

Jennifer Pastiloff

Paris by the Book

Liam Callanan

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

Hank Green

Text Me When You Get Home

Kayleen Schaefer

Brent Howard

Executive Editor

Brent Howard joined Dutton in March 2017, specializing in nonfiction with a focus on history, biography, military, politics and food. In a career spanning fourteen years, he has worked with a wide range of authors, including Daniel Stone, John C. McManus, Alex Kershaw, Luke Barr, William C. Davis, Harold Holzer, David O. Stewart, Greg Lewis, Phillips Payson O’Brien, John Oller, Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, Mark Jacobson, Rachel S. Cox, Gregory A. Freeman, Gregg Jones, John S.D. Eisenhower, R.V. Burgin, Brandon Webb, Larry Alexander, Jonathan W. Jordan, and Jack Cheevers.

Forthcoming books include New York Times bestselling author Alex Kershaw’s The First Wave, a thrilling, immersive tale of D-Day heroism; John C. McManus’s Fire and Fortitude, an epic history of the US Army in the Pacific War; David L. Roll’s George Marshall: Defender of the Republic, the definitive biography of one of America’s most distinguished soldier–statesman; and William C. Davis’s The Greatest Fury, a magisterial new account of the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812.

Brent Howard's Featured Titles

The First Wave

Alex Kershaw

White Shoe

John Oller

Fire and Fortitude

John C. McManus

George Marshall

David L. Roll

Stephanie Kelly

Editor

Stephanie Kelly joined Dutton in 2011 as Publisher’s Assistant. She became an Editor in 2017, and edits both fiction and nonfiction. She is interested in psychological thrillers, suspense, commercial fiction, women’s fiction, and pop culture, particularly with a humorous, millennial, or feminist bent. Stephanie’s list features New York Times bestsellers Tami Hoag, Linda Fairstein, Eric Jerome Dickey, and David Wilcock, and national bestseller Fiona Davis. Recent and forthcoming titles include Dr. Amy Blackstone’s Childfree by Choice, Fiona Davis’s Chelsea Girls, Hannah Shaw’s Tiny But Mighty:Kitten Lady’s Guide to Saving the Most Vulnerable Felines, Elizabeth L. Cline’s The Conscious Closet, and debut thrillers Stolen Things by R.H. Herron and Theme Music by T. Marie Vandelly.

Stephanie Kelly's Featured Titles

Childfree by Choice

Dr. Amy Blackstone

The Chelsea Girls

Fiona Davis

Tiny But Mighty

Hannah Shaw

The Conscious Closet

Elizabeth L. Cline

Stolen Things

R. H. Herron

Theme Music

T. Marie Vandelly

Lindsey Rose

Executive Editor

Lindsey joined Dutton in January 2019 with a mandate to acquire all types of commercial fiction, with a particular focus on suspense and thrillers.

Before coming to Dutton, she was a senior editor at Grand Central Publishing, where she began her career. During her time at Grand Central, she worked with numerous New York Times bestselling authors including David Baldacci, Iris Johansen, Jeff Abbott, M.C. Beaton, Margaret Maron, Brad Meltzer, Jeffery Deaver, Kyle Mills, and Eric Van Lustbader, among others.