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 2018 and 2019 list features three-time New York Times bestselling author Nick Offerman’s joint memoir with his wife, Megan Mullally, The Greatest Love Story Ever Told, a memoir by Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, Caitlin Moscatello’s narrative about women running for office in 2018 See Jane Win, Alexandra Robbin’s revealing and shocking narrative Fraternity, and Abby Maslin’s memoir Love You Hard. Other New York Times bestsellers at Dutton include Drew Barrymore’s Wildflower, Brooke Shields’s There Was a Little Girl, and John Taylor’s In the Pleasure Groove.

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

Let's Go (So We Can Get Back)

Jeff Tweedy

The Greatest Love Story Ever Told

Megan Mullally
Nick Offerman

The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell

W. Kamau Bell

Fraternity

Alexandra Robbins

Love You Hard

Abby Maslin

Maya Ziv

Executive Editor

Maya Ziv joined Dutton in September 2015 as an Executive Editor focusing on commercial and literary fiction with popular appeal, including suspense, historical, and high concept fiction. Recent and upcoming titles include Hank Green’s #1 New York Times bestseller An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, My Own Devices by rapper and essayist, Dessa, New York Times bestseller The Last Time I Lied by 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, which has spent a year on the IndieBound bestseller list; the national bestselling The Queen of the Tearling trilogy by Erika Johansen.

Maya Ziv's Featured Titles

The Last Time I Lied

Riley Sager

Paris by the Book

Liam Callanan

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

Hank Green

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 Linda Fairstein, Tami Hoag, Eric Jerome Dickey, and David Wilcock, and national bestseller Fiona Davis. Recent and forthcoming titles include Fiona Davis’s The Masterpiece about New York City’s Grand Central Terminal, Too Close to Breathe, a debut thriller in the vein of Tana French, by Irish writer Oliva Kiernan, and Tami Hoag’s latest thriller, The Boy.

Stephanie Kelly's Featured Titles

The Address

Fiona Davis

Too Close to Breathe

Olivia Kiernan

The Boy

Tami Hoag

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.