Kara Watson VP / Executive Editor Scribner
About the Editor
Kara Watson, VP/Executive Editor, acquires literary and book club fiction, memoir, narrative and practical nonfiction, and cookbooks. Recent novels include the national bestseller Big Swiss by Jen Beagin,Death Valley by Melissa Broder, The Half Moon by Mary Beth Keane, Treacle Walker by Alan Garner, and Fruit of the Dead by Rachel Lyon. Nonfiction books are Say More by MSNBC host Jen Psaki, Sex with a Brain Injury by Annie Liontas, The Everlasting Meal Cookbook by Tamar Adler,Gateau by Aleksandra Crapanzano, and The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly by Margareta Magnusson. Rediscovered classics on Kara’s list include O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker, The Women in Black by Madeleine St John, and The Fortnight in September by RC Sherriff. Forthcoming projects include novels by Stephanie Danler, Claire Kilroy, Kathy Wang, Kat Tang, and Claire Lynch; narrative nonfiction by Rachel Clarke, Mariella Frostrup, and Sanna Marin, and an update of Harold McGee’s On Food and Cooking. Kara also works with Joanna Cannon, Tahmima Anam, Andrea Lee, AJ Pearce, Carole Johnstone, Ethan Joella, Dr. Wendy Mogel, Ray Isle, Megan Mayhew Bergman, Kate Manning, Ann Beattie and others, and oversees key backlist including the F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway estates.
