Joy de Menil Vice President and Executive Editor Avid Reader Press

Joy de Menil has worked at Random House, The Atlantic, Harvard University Press, and Viking, where she was Executive Editor for nine years. A nonfiction publisher with a passion for narrative history and an interest in science, psychology, the environment and big ideas that matter, she has published a number of award-winning, bestselling books including Andrew Roberts’s Churchill and Napoleon, Dan Jones’s The Plantagenets and The Templars, Ned Johnson and William Stixrud’s The Self-Driven Child, Neil MacGregor’s A History of the World in 100 Objects, Sonia Purnell’s Clementine and A Woman of No Importance, Joe Allen and John Macomber’s Healthy Buildings, Julian Jackson’s France on Trial, Diarmaid MacCulloch’s Christianity, Margaret MacMillan’s Paris 1919, Bernard Lewis’s Crisis of Islam,and Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran. Other authors she has worked with include Andrea Wulf, Meagan McArdle, Marcus du Sautoy, Lee Hood, Mia Bay, Sean Wilentz, Stephanie McCurry, John Guy, Lee Hood, Eve Ensler, Robert Kaplan, Richard Holbrooke, and Rory Stewart. Her books have won the Bancroft Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, Orwell Prize, the Cundill Prize, the Baily Gifford Prize, the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize, and The Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A committed composter, she lives with her family in Washington DC and is a trustee of the Turquoise Mountain Foundation and a member of the Washington Committee of the Council on Foreign Relations.