Robert Messenger Senior Editor Simon & Schuster

Robert Messenger joined Simon & Schuster in early 2021 to acquire works of history, politics, and culture with an emphasis on conservative points of view. His first two decades in publishing were spent at newspapers and magazines. He started his career as a junior editor at the New Criterion. In 2002, he was one of the founding editors of the New York Sun, the first new broadsheet newspaper in that city in more than fifty years, and the architect of its highly regarded arts and sports sections. He helped revitalize the Atlantic with its move to Washington, D.C., in 2005. In 2010, he created the Wall Street Journal’s Saturday “Books” supplement. In 2017, he became executive editor of the Weekly Standard. He has been a juror for the Pulitzer Prizes and taught writing at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He lives year-round in Blue Hill, Maine.