Neal Porter

Neal Porter

Neal Porter is an American children's book editor. He is the founder of Neal Porter books,[1] an imprint of Roaring Brook Press, which is itself a division of the Macmillan publishing group.

After a brief stint in the college textbook department of St. Martin’s Press he moved into trade publishing, in 1977, where he held marketing positions at Avon Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Atheneum and Scribners. In 1985 he became Editorial Director of Aladdin Books at Macmillan and in 1987 he moved to London to become Joint Managing Director of Walker Books in London. He returned to the United States in 1989 as Vice President and Publisher of Macmillan Children’s Books and subsequently held executive positions at Orchard Books and Dorling Kindersley. In 2000 he decided to step away from administration and focus exclusively on editing books. That year he helped to found Roaring Brook Press, where he is currently Editorial Director of Neal Porter Books, and a leading voice in children's publishing.[2]

Authors and illustrators he has edited include Ed Young, Laura Vaccaro Seeger, Ted Lewin, Rebecca and Ed Emberley, Amy Tan, Philip and Erin Stead, Chitra Divakaruni, Nick Bruel, Wendell Minor, Ross MacDonald, and Doris Orgel. Books he has edited have won numerous citations including the Caldecott Medal, two Caldecott Honors, two Theodore Geisel Honors, two Seibert Honors for Nonfiction, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Sugarman Award for Biography, ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults, and more than 30 ALA Notable Book Citations.

Books edited by Porter have earned dozens of awards and commendations, including:

Neal Porter resides in New York City.

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