Bob Bender Vice President and Executive Editor Simon & Schuster
About the Editor

Bob Bender acquires a wide range of nonfiction, including biography and autobiography, history, current events, popular science, popular culture (primarily film and music), and narrative nonfiction with a distinctive voice. Authors Bob has published include: Muhammad Ali, Marie Arana, Jonah Berger, Peter Biskind, David Blight, Harold Bloom, James Cramer, Miles Davis, Wade Davis, Jonathan Eig, Scott Eyman, David Hackett Fischer, Linda Greenhouse, Jeff Guinn, Chris Hedges, Samuel Huntington, David Cay Johnston, John Kerry, Naomi Klein, Steven Levy, Reeve Lindbergh, Mario Livio, Peter Lynch, David McCullough, Pauline Maier, Donald Miller, Robert Putnam, David Quammen, Gilda Radner, James Shapiro, Jean Edward Smith, Barry Strauss, John Thorn, and E. O. Wilson.