Nan A. Talese

Talese at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.

Nan Talese (née Ahern) is an American editor and a veteran of the New York publishing industry.^[1]

Career

Talese is Senior Vice President of Doubleday and the Publisher and Editorial Director of Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. At Random House and earlier at Simon & Schuster and Houghton Mifflin, she has had editorial relationships with Pat Conroy, Margaret Atwood, Ian McEwan, Barry Unsworth, Valerie Martin, and Thomas Keneally. Her imprint also published James Frey's discredited memoir A Million Little Pieces.^[1]

Personal life

Talese has been married for over 50 years to writer Gay Talese, a marriage that is to be documented in an upcoming novel by her husband.^[2][3] They have two daughters.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Oprah vs. James Frey: The Sequel". TIME. 30 July 2007. http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1648140,00.html. Retrieved 11 September 2009. 
2. ^ "A Nonfiction Marriage". New York. 26 April 2009. http://nymag.com/arts/books/profiles/56289/. Retrieved 11 September 2009. 
3. ^ "Talese's memoir details his writing travails". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. 16 May 2006. http://www.seattlepi.com/books/270279_talese16.html. Retrieved 11 September 2009. 

External links

• Random House bio

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