Jane Friedman
Jane Friedman is a leading publishing executive, consultant and innovator, who has worked with such internationally bestselling authors as John le Carre, Julia Child, Michael Crichton, John Updike, Joseph Heller, Toni Morrison, and Dennis Lehane. She served as the first female global CEO of a major publishing enterprise when Rupert Murdoch named Friedman President and CEO of HarperCollins Publishers Worldwide (NewsCorp) in 1997, and she remained in that role until 2008.
In 2009 Friedman co-founded Open Road Integrated Media with Jeffrey Sharp. As CEO, Friedman transformed digital publishing by creating ebooks from legendary authors including William Syron, Alice Walker, and James Jones. For her work with Open Road, Friedman was named one of Fortune Magazine’s most powerful women entrepreneurs.
Prior to coming to HarperCollins, Friedman was at Random House, where she was Executive Vice President of Random House Inc., Executive Vice President of the Knopf Publishing Group, Publisher of Vintage Books, and Founder and President of Random House Audio Publishing.
Victoria Wilson
Victoria Wilson is Vice President, Executive Editor at Alfred A Knopf, Publishers. Among the many authors she has worked with: Walter Abish, Alice Adams, Diane Ravitch, Laurel Ulrich, Susan Cheever, Mary Beth Norton, Amy Klobuchar, Laurie Colwin, Diane Johnson, William Gass, Peter Bogdanovich, Lorrie Moore, Anne Rice, Arthur Laurents, Sarah Chayes, Philippe Sands, Jill Ciment, George Stevens, Christopher Plummer, Helen Simpson, David Steinberg, Lisa Alther, Meryle Secrest, Suzanne Simard, Ruth Gruber, Jane Alexander, Richard Mason, Jacques d’Ambroise, Erin Brockovitch, Amy McGrath and Annalena McAfee.
Wilson has served on the board of PEN, Poets & Writers, and was Vice President of the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, and was appointed by President Clinton to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. Her acclaimed biography, A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True 1907-1940, Volume One was published by Simon & Schuster. She is at work on the concluding volume of the Starwyck biography.
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