Rick Kot began his career at Harper & Row and worked at The Dial Press, Hyperion, and Little, Brown before coming to Viking in 2000. He edits a broad range of nonfiction in areas ranging from current affairs to science, business, history, biography, the arts, and popular culture. His authors include Andrew Ross Sorkin, Paul Hawken, Colin Woodard, Spencer Ackerman, Ray Kurzweil, John Dean, James Clapper, Renée Fleming, Barbra Streisand, Rosanne Cash, and Ani DiFranco.