David Ebershoff Editor

Editing Prize-Winners and Bestsellers

I started at Random House as a summer intern, and am currently Vice President & Editor-in-Chief of Hogarth, Random House’s boutique literary imprint, and an Executive Editor at Random House.

I’ve edited books that won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction, history, and biography; a winner of the National Book Award in fiction; a winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award; an Oprah Book Club selection, a Read with Jenna Pick, a Good Morning America Book Club selection, and more than twenty-five New York Times bestsellers.

Writers I’ve edited include: Sarah Broom, Teju Cole, Billy Collins, Vinson Cunningham, Kiran Desai, Shirin Ebadi, Mariana Enriquez, Imbolo Mbue, Jane Jacobs, Adam Johnson, Diane Keaton, David Kertzer, Angie Kim, Fredrik Logevall, Norman Mailer, Anthony Marra, David Mitchell, Sara Nović, Chigozie Obioma, Julia Phillips, Gary Shteyngart, Ruth Simmons, Jean Stein, Javier Zamora, and posthumous publications by Truman Capote, Shirley Jackson, and W.G. Sebald.

Here are some of the books I’ve edited: