Executive Editor Scribner

Christopher Richards, VP/Executive Editor, joined Scribner in 2022. Chris began his career at Farrar, Straus and Giroux before moving to Penguin Press, where he edited and acquired New York Times bestsellers and critically acclaimed books that engage culture, science, and important issues of our time. He acquires a range of serious nonfiction—especially history, science, politics, literary memoir, poetry, and cultural criticism—and select literary fiction. His books include a National Book Critics Circle Award Winner and finalists for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize. Among his publications are The Climate Book and No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg, the #1 New York Times bestselling activist and 2019’s Time Person of the Year; Robin Wall Kimmerer’s New York Times bestseller The Serviceberry, a #1 Indie Next Pick; bestsellers The Bill of Obligations and The World by the President of the Council on Foreign Relations Richard Haass; and What You Have Heard Is True by poet Carolyn Forché, a National Book Award finalist. Forthcoming Scribner authors include scientist Carlo Rovelli, poet Patricia Smith, historian Michael John Witgen, founder of Our World in Data Max Roser, astrophysicist Katie Mack, and New Yorker columnist Joshua Rothman.