- Nick Denton
Nick Denton is the founder and proprietor of Gawker Media. Nick Denton was educated at University College School and University College, Oxford. He began his career as a journalist with the Financial Times. Denton is openly gay. Denton co-wrote a book about the collapse of Barings Bank called "All That Glitters". - Nikki Finke
In 2007, Finke won the Los Angeles Press Club's Southern California Journalism Award for "Entertainment Journalist of the Year" with the judges commenting: "Reading Nikki Finke 's salaciously candid coverage of Hollywood and its inhabitants almost feels like a guilty pleasure. She mixes the news with fearless finger-wagging that's just fun to read no matter the subject. She tackles the industry monoliths without the kiddy gloves and she seems to have command of the beat." - Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher. - Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Book Award, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and the Prix Femina. She is the Roger S. Berlind Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University, and she has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978. She is the author of more than 50 works of fiction, an indefatigable reviewer, a creator of essays, plays, diaries and, under two pseudonyms, psychological thrillers. - John Carter
John Carter was an English author and Vice-President of the Bibliographical Society. His 1934 exposé, "An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets", co-written with author Graham Pollard, exposed the antique book forgery scheme of Harry Forman, the distinguished executive editor of Keats and Shelley publishers, and Thomas J. Wise, one of the world's most prominent book collectors. - Richard Taylor
Richard Taylor was an English naturalist and publisher of scientific journals. He published the first edition of the "Philosophical Magazine" in 1798 and went of to publish the "Annals of Natural History" in 1838. He edited and published "Scientific Memoirs, Selected from the Transactions of Foreign Academies of Science" from 1837 to 1852. In 1852 he was joined by the chemist, Dr William Francis to form Taylor and Francis. - Jim Baen
James Patrick "Jim" Baen was a noted U.S. science fiction publisher and editor. In 1983 he founded his own publishing house, Baen Books, specializing in the adventure, fantasy, and military science fiction / space opera genres. In late 1999 he started an electronic publishing business called Webscriptions, considered to be the first profitable e-book vendor despite not using encryption or DRM. He was considered a controversial figure during his own lifetime, … - Rich Karlgaard
Rich Karlgaard is publisher of "Forbes" magazine since July 1, 1998. Before that, he was editor of Forbes ASAP. A native of Bismarck, North Dakota, he graduated from Stanford University, with a B.A. in Political Science. He attended Stanford after transferring from Bismarck State College, where he had earned a track and field scholarship. Karlgaard was a co-founder of "Upside Magazine". He is an avid pilot and author of "Life 2.0". - Stuart Rothenberg
Stuart Rothenberg is the editor and publisher of The Rothenberg Political Report, a Washington-based, biweekly, non-partisan newsletter that reports on and analyzes the United States Presidential, House, Senatorial, and Gubernatorial elections and current political developments. Rothenberg holds a B.A. from Colby College in Waterville, Maine, and a Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut. He has taught political science at Bucknell University Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, … - Hendrik Hertzberg
Hendrik Hertzberg (b. 1943) is an American journalist, best known as the principal (and left-leaning) political commentator for "The New Yorker" magazine. He has also been a speechwriter for President Jimmy Carter and editor of "The New Republic", and is the author of "Politics: Observations & Arguments". The son of Sidney Hertzberg, a journalist and political activist, and Hazel Whitman Hertzberg, … - Jim Shooter
Jim Shooter (born September 27, 1951 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American writer, occasional fill-in artist, editor, and publisher for various comic books. - Gary Groth
Gary Groth (born 1954) is an American comic book editor, publisher, and critic. He is editor in chief of "The Comics Journal" and a co-founder of Fantagraphics Books. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, young Groth published "Fantastic Fanzine", a fanzine and a pun on the Marvel Comics title Fantastic Four. Later Groth worked as an assistant to artist Jim Steranko. In 1976 Groth founded Fantagraphics Books Incorporated with Mike Catron, … - Rod Smith
Rod Smith, who was born in Gallipolis, Ohio in 1962, is an American poet, editor and publisher. He grew up in Northern Virginia and moved to Washington, DC in 1987. Smith has authored several collections of poetry, including In Memory of My Theories, Protective Immediacy, and Music or Honesty. He has taught creative writing at George Mason University where he is finishing his MFA. Smith currently teaches Cultural Studies at Towson University. - Jonathan Strahan
Jonathan Strahan (1964 in Belfast -) is an editor and publisher of science fiction. His family moved to Perth, Western Australia in 1968, and he graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986. In 1990 he co-founded "Eidolon: The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy", and worked on it as co-editor and co-publisher until 1999. - Mortimer Zuckerman
Background: Mortimer B. Zuckerman is the chairman and editor-in-chief of U.S.News & World Report and a regular columnist for the magazine. He is also the publisher of the New York Daily News as well as the founder and chairman of Boston Properties Inc., one of the nation's largest real estate companies. He is a trustee of Memorial Sloan-Kettering, the Hole in the Wall Gang Fund Inc., and the Center for Communications. - Clare Boothe Luce
Clare Boothe Luce (April 10, 1903 - October 9, 1987) was an American editor, playwright, social activist, politician, journalist, and diplomat. Witty, perceptive, and determined, she was also a prominent figure in New York society circles. - Richard Butler
Richard Butler, born: 11 November 1834 at Coteau du Lac, Lower Canada. died: 16 March 1925. Buried in Hamilton Cemetery. editor, publisher, journalist and U.S. vice-consul in Hamilton, Ontario. Managed to secure job with the "Montreal Herald" when he was just twelve years of age to help his mother raise family that included 3 siblings after his father passed away suddenly from serving military time for the "British 24th Foot Regiment" stationed in Canada. - Tim Lucas
Tim Lucas is a film critic, novelist, blogger, and publisher/editor of the video review magazine "Video Watchdog". Born May 30, 1956 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Lucas began writing professionally at the age of 15, when his first reviews were accepted by the influential fantasy film review "Cinefantastique". He served as one of the magazine's midwestern bureaus for the next ten years. - Byron Preiss
Byron Preiss (born 1953, Brooklyn, New York City; died July 9, 2005, East Hampton, New York) was an American writer, editor and publisher. He founded and served as president of Byron Preiss Visual Publications, and later of iBooks. - Peter Norton
Peter Norton (born November 14 1943) is an American software publisher, author, and philanthropist. - Hugo Gernsback
Hugo Gernsback, born Hugo Gernsbacher, was a Luxembourg American inventor, writer and magazine publisher, best remembered for publications that included the first science fiction magazine. His contribution to the genre as publisher was so significant, that along with H.G. Wells and Jules Verne, he is sometimes popularly called "The Father of Science Fiction". - Gerald Duckworth
Gerald de l'Etang Duckworth (born 1870, died 28 September 1937, Milan, Italy) was a British publisher. - John Battelle
John Battelle , 42, is an entrepreneur, journalist, professor and author who has founded or co-founded scores of online, conference, magazine and other media businesses. Prior to founding Federated Media, Battelle co-founded and continues to serve as Executive Producer of the Web 2 Summit conference, as well as "band manager" with BoingBoing.net . - Malcolm Forbes
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes was publisher of "Forbes magazine", founded by his father B.C. Forbes and today run by his son Steve Forbes. He was a graduate of the Lawrenceville School and Princeton University, where he donated the money for Forbes College, one of the five residential colleges at the University. He received an honorary degree from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and was initiated as an honorary member of the Alpha Chapter of Phi Kappa Tau. - Jason Pontin
Jason Pontin (born May 11, 1967) is an editor, journalist and publisher. Pontin is the editor in chief and publisher of "Technology Review", an independent publication owned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that describes emerging technologies and analyses their impact. He was hired as the editor of "Technology Review" in July 2004, and in August of 2005 was also named publisher. - John Peter Zenger
John Peter Zenger was a German-born U.S. printer, publisher, editor and journalist in New York City. His indictment, trial and acquittal on sedition and libel charges against the Governor William Cosby of the New York Colony in 1735 were important contributing factors to the development of freedom of the press in America. - Kevin Eastman
Kevin Brooks Eastman (born May 30, 1962, Springvale, Maine) is an American comic book artist. He is best known as the co-creator, (in association with Peter Laird), of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Eastman is the current owner, editor and publisher of the magazine "Heavy Metal". Eastman is the founder of the Words and Pictures Museum, a museum dedicated exclusively to comic book art in his hometown of Northampton, Massachusetts in 1992. - John Tranter
John Tranter (born 1943) is an Australian poet, publisher and editor. He has been the publisher and editor of the internet quarterly literary magazine "Jacket" since he founded it in 1997. Tranter was born in Cooma, New South Wales and attended country schools, then took his BA in 1970 after attending university sporadically. He has worked mainly in publishing, teaching and radio production, and has travelled widely, … - Frederick Douglass IV
Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in 1817 on a tobacco plantation in eastern Maryland. His mother was hired out when he was still an infant. He later recalled that he did not see his mother "more than four or five times in my life." When Douglass was about six years old, he was sent to a nearby plantation where he ran errands and performed simple chores. Douglass learned in 1825 that he was to be sent away from the plantation to Baltimore. - John Bartlett
John Bartlett (June 14 1820 - December 3 1905) was an American writer and publisher whose best known work, "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" has been continually revised and reissued for a century after his death. Bartlett was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts, to William and Susan (Thacher) Bartlett. A very bright boy, he was reading at age three and had read the entire Bible by nine. He finished school at age sixteen and went to Cambridge, Massachusetts, … - Rupert Hart-Davis
Sir Rupert Charles Hart-Davis (August 28, 1907 - December 8, 1999) was a British publisher, literary editor, and man of letters, founder of the publishing company Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd. - George Newnes
Sir George Newnes, 1st Baronet was a publisher and editor in England. He was born in Matlock, Derbyshire. His father was a Congregational church minister. He was educated at Shireland Hall, Warwickshire, and the City of London School. His arguably best known publication was "The Strand Magazine", begun in 1891, in which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was first able to publish his Sherlock Holmes mystery series. - Ben Brantley
Ben Brantley (born October 26, 1954) is the chief theatre critic of the "New York Times". Born Benjamin D. Brantley in Durham, North Carolina, Brantley received a B.A. degree in English from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania and is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Brantley began his journalism career as a summer intern at the "Winston-Salem Sentinel" in 1976 and an editorial assistant at "The Village Voice" in 1975. - Charles Knight
Charles Knight (March 15, 1791 - March 9, 1873) was an English publisher and author. The son of a bookseller and printer at Windsor, he was apprenticed to his father, but on completion of his indentures he took up journalism and had an interest in several newspaper speculations, including the "Windsor, Slough and Eton Express" which continues to this day. In 1823, in conjunction with friends he had made as publisher (1820-1821) of "The Etonian", … - Christopher Kimball
Christopher Kimball is founder, editor, and publisher of "Cook's Illustrated" magazine (formerly "Cook's Magazine"). He is the author of "The Cook's Bible", "The Yellow Farmhouse Cookbook", "Dear Charlie", and "The Dessert Bible". He is a columnist for the "New York Daily News" and the Boston-based "TAB" newspapers. He also hosts the syndicated PBS cooking show "America's Test Kitchen". - Debbie Stoller
Debbie Stoller is an author, publisher and textile artist whose work includes knitting and crochet. She is the author of the Stitch 'N Bitch series of books. She currently lives in Brooklyn with her dog, Shadow. Stoller is the creator, owner, and Editor-in-Chief of "Bust" magazine, which offers a modern, youth-oriented, feminist take on popular culture. - John Pelan
John C. Pelan (b. 1957) is an author, editor and publisher in the small press science-fiction, weird and horror fiction genres. He currently resides in his hometown of Seattle, WA with his wife Kathy and their six cats. He first founded Axolotl Press in 1986 and published several volumes by authors such as Tim Powers, Charles de Lint, Michael Shea and James P. Blaylock. Following this, he founded Darkside Press, Silver Salamander Press and co-founded Midnight House. - Donald Allen
Donald Merriam Allen, influential editor, publisher, and translator of contemporary American literature. He is perhaps best known for his project "The New American Poetry 1945-1960" (1960), among the several important anthologies of contemporary American "innovative" writing he made available to the public. Allen's impact as an editor, publisher, and friend to poets continued to be felt well into the 21st century. - Grace Mirabella
Grace Mirabella (born 1930) is a former editor-in-chief of "Vogue" magazine where she worked from 1971 to 1988. Mirabella was replaced by Anna Wintour in 1988. In the 1990s, she published her own fashion magazine, "Mirabella", with the help of Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch. - Eliane Fiolet
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