Nan talese biography

Nan A. Talese, a much-respected publishing fixture, will retire at the end of 2020 after more than 60 years in the business.

Talese, who has had numerous roles in the industry, has run her eponymous imprint at Doubleday since 1990.

Talese began her career at Random House in 1959 as a copyeditor and was promoted to literary editor, the first woman in that position.

She then moved on to positions at Simon and Schuster, where she edited Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally and Houghton Mifflin, where she acquired The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood and The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy.

Among the many authors she has published are Ian McEwan, Adam Haslett, Alex Kotlowitz, Mia Farrow, Jim Crace, Valerie Martin, Peter Ackroyd, Mary Morris, Louis Begley, Jennifer Egan, Mark Richard, Judy Collins, Barry Unsworth, Antonia Fraser, Thomas Cahill, Janet Wallach, and George Plimpton.

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