Ann Godoff
President and Publisher of The Penguin Press

Ann Godoff joined Penguin Group in 2003 to start her own imprint. Ms.Godoff has had a distinguished career in book publishing since joining the editorial department of Simon & Schuster in 1980. In 1987 she joined Atlantic Monthly Press as Senior Editor, becoming Editor-in-Chief in 1989. She was appointed executive editor at Random House in 1991, becoming a Vice President in 1994 and Editorial Director in 1995. In 1997 she became president, publisher, and editor-in-chief of the Random House Trade Publishing Group and executive vice president of Random House, Inc. Among the celebrated authors Ms. Godoff has acquired and edited are John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, a record-breaker on The New York Times bestseller list, 1997 Booker Award winner Arundhati Roy (The God of Small Things) and Zadie Smith (White Teeth), Ron Chernow, Alexandra Fuller (author of best-selling Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight), Caleb Carr, William Finnegan, James Hillman, Frank Rich, Salman Rushdie, Annie Leibovitz, Michael Pollan, Jeffrey Toobin, Nathan McCall, Francine du Plessix Gray, Thomas Pynchon, Steve Coll, Frank Rich, David Nasaw, Michael Kimmleman. Ruth Reichl, and Alan Furst.