About the Editor

Nan Graham, Senior Vice President, Publisher-at-Large, Editor, was Publisher of Scribner from 2012 to 2025 and Editor-in-Chief of the imprint from 1994 to 2011. She began her career at Pantheon and then worked at Viking Penguin for a decade. Her titles have garnered the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and many other accolades, and her many bestselling, award-winning authors include Stephen King, Anthony Doerr, Annie Proulx, Don DeLillo, Jennifer Egan, Rachel Kushner, Colm Tóibín, Monica Ali, Dana Spiotta, M. L. Stedman, Laura Cumming, Jeannette Walls, Siddhartha Mukherjee, and Andrew Solomon. She edited Solomon’s National Book Award-winner The Noonday Demon and the Pulitzer Prize winners The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee, All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, and Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt. In addition to Angela’s Ashes, she has edited the memoirs Born Standing Up by Steve Martin, The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, and Mary Karr’s The Liar’s Club. She worked closely with Kathy Belden on the upcoming Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy. Graham stepped aside as Scribner Publisher in February 2025.