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Colin Dickerman Named Executive Editor at Penguin Press

The Penguin Press expansion continues, following the recent hire of Andrea Walker to acquire fiction for the Penguin imprint and the announcement by president Ann Godoff this spring that Penguin Press would be aiming to grow its list by 50 percent.

Colin Dickerman, most recently vice president and publishing director of Rodale Books, has now Read More

Penguin Nabs Pricey Mothering Memoir

Yale Law professor Amy Chua’s first two books–World on Fire and Day of Empire–concerned international policy. Her third, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, will take a turn for the domestic: it’s a parenting memoir.

The book, which generated heated interest in the days leading up to its sale, sold at auction to Ann Godoff of Read More

Penguin Press Pays Advance Said to Be $1 Million for French- Colombian Politician Íngrid Betancourt’s Captivity Memoir

The Penguin Press has acquired U.S rights to a memoir by Íngrid Betancourt, the French-Colombian politician who was kidnapped while running for president of Colombia in 2002 and held captive for more than six years. Ms. Betancourt, who enjoys particular celebrity in France because she spent much of her life there before entering Colombian Read More

Ann Godoff Knocks Wood For New Shabby-Chic List

Poor Ann Godoff, she can’t win for losing. When the veteran editor was fired as president of Random House last January, she was both hailed and reviled for being tough, for being independent, for spending too much money while at the same time being too “literary.” A quiet period followed, during which Ms. Godoff and Read More

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Why Is Ann Godoff

Diving on Penguin?

It’s a Lovely Match

Not since 1999, when Tina Brown dumped Condé Nast for a little adventure called Talk , has there been so much buzz about the comings and goings of a middle-aged media personage. But for the past two weeks, the only thing people in Read More

Ann Godoff Is Out At Random House

After five years as president of Random House, Ann Godoff was dismissed on Thursday Jan. 16 by president and chief executive Peter Olson, as part of a major shake-up at the Bertelsmann-owned publisher. Random House–one of the premier imprints in American publishing, founded by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer in 1925–will be merged with Ballantine Read More