Henry Holt & Company
PRESIDENT & PUBLISHER
Andrew Miller joined Holt as President and Publisher in January 2024. Before coming to Holt he was VP and Editorial Director for Nonfiction at Alfred A. Knopf, where he was an editor for more than twenty years, working with authors such as John Carreyrou, Casey Cep, Ken Burns, Michael Finkel, Kory Stamper, Cat Bohannon, George Packer, John Vaillant, Kelly and Juliet Starrett, Peter Frankopan, and Gary Bass.
VICE PRESIDENT, EDITOR AT LARGE
Crichton has been a writer, editor and book publisher for more than 30 years. At Holt, she edits an array of nonfiction and fiction, ranging from Michael Wolff’s newsbreaking Landslide to Nick McDonnell’s illustrated novel, The Council of Animals. Her list at Sarah Crichton Books/FSG, which she headed for 14 years, included an equally broad range of notable books, among them, Ishmael Beah’s #1 bestselling memoir, A Long Way Gone; Cathleen Schine’s The Three Weissmanns of Westport; Matthew Quick’s Silver Linings Playbook; Jason Goodwin’s Edgar-award winner, The Janissary Tree; Pulitzer-prize winner David Finkel’s The Good Soldiers and Thank You For Your Service; and naturalist/activist Terry Tempest Williams’ The Hour of Land. Publisher of Little, Brown from 1996-2001, she published Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point and George Stephanopoulos’s All Too Human. She is also the co-author of several books, including A Mighty Heart, with Mariane Pearl.
VICE PRESIDENT, EXECUTIVE EDITOR
Duggan joined Holt in 2021 after working as the editor of an eponymous imprint at Crown, and before that, as an executive editor at Harper. The authors he has worked with at Holt include Hilary Mantel, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Rick Atkinson, and he has also edited books by Timothy Snyder, David Wallace-Wells, Michiko Kakutani, Daniel Mendelsohn, Karan Mahajan, Annie Dillard, and Uzodinma Iweala. The books he has edited include winners of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and multiple finalists for the National Book Award. He has received the Editorial Excellence Award from the Biographers International Organization, and is a fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities.
VICE PRESIDENT, EXECUTIVE EDITOR
Serena Jones joined Holt in 2010 after working at HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and NAL. Her list is mostly narrative nonfiction, with special interests in current events, politics, biography, social justice, science, true crime, and adventure, though she makes the occasional foray into fiction. Some favorite titles include Pelosi by Molly Ball, Black Wave by Kim Ghattas, Test Gods by Nicholas Schmidle, and The Book of V. by Anna Solomon, a Good Morning America Book Club Pick. Serena has worked with, among others, Stacey Abrams, Jimmy Carter, Lenny Kravitz, Skip Hollandsworth, Tim Weiner, Gretchen Morgenson, Bill O’Reilly, John Pomfret, Diane Guerrero, Nathan Wolfe, Michael Grunwald, Taylor Branch, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Walter Isaacson, and Bob Woodward.
VICE PRESIDENT, EXECUTIVE EDITOR
Retha Powers acquires fiction and nonfiction. Her acquisitions include the acclaimed novel Dear Miss Metropolitan by Carolyn Ferrell; Jocelyn Nicole Johnson’s award-winning debut, My Monticello; Misfits by Michaela Coel; How We Can Win, by author and activist Kimberly Jones; The Talk a graphic memoir by Pulitzer-Prize winning cartoonist Darrin Bell; and Lessons For Survival by writer and climate activist Emily Raboteau. Previously she was Assistant Director of the Publishing Certificate Program at the City College of New York, Director of the Langston Hughes Festival, and Executive Editor of Quality Paperback Book Club.
EXECUTIVE EDITOR
Riva joined Metropolitan at its founding. At Holt she acquires and edits books with strong points of view in the areas of politics and history (American and Middle Eastern in particular), international reportage, and cultural criticism, and also publishes quality fiction and graphic novels. Her projects include work by Robin D. Kelley, Michael Frayn, Rashid Khalidi, Amira Hass, Anna Politkovskaya, Nathan Thrall, Becca Rothfeld, and Leana Wen. Among Metropolitan’s line of graphic novels are books by Joe Sacco, Riad Sattouf, Edel Rodriguez, and Howard Zinn.
SENIOR EDITOR
Caroline Zancan is a Senior Editor at Holt, acquiring literary and upmarket fiction and memoir. She’s particularly drawn to story-driven literary fiction with a big pitch. As an Ohio expat she loves stories about the Midwest and the South and all the states that don’t always get enough credit for their texture and nuance. Her taste in fiction has a dark streak, and she’s always on the lookout for meticulously plotted literary horror and mystery novels. She’s a sucker for big-hearted, off-beat, and voicey debuts and especially loves to publish voices we haven’t traditionally gotten to hear from as much in the past. She edited Heather Harpham’s Happiness, which was a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick; Nafkote Tamirat’s The Parking Lot Attendant, which was a New York Times Notable Book and shortlisted for the Center for Fictions’ First Novel Prize; and National Book Award finalist Dan Chaon’s Sleepwalk, which Holt is publishing in 2022. Recent acquisitions for Holt include Alison Espach’s Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance and a debut memoir by the acclaimed novelist Hannah Pittard.
Associate Editor
Micaela Carr is an associate editor at Holt, acquiring commercial, book club, and literary fiction, and selective narrative non-fiction and memoir that touch on social and cultural topics. She is particularly interested in uplifting writers from marginalized communities and backgrounds. Before Holt, she was an assistant editor at Harper, editing women's fiction across the commercial and literary spectrum.