Dutton
Edward Payson Dutton founded a book-selling firm in Boston, in 1852 the eponymous E. P. Dutton, but it wasn't until 1864 when a branch office was set up in New York, that the company began to publish books. Its original focus was on religious titles, and the first bestseller was the two-volume Life of Christ by Frederic Farrar, published in 1874.
1885, John Macrae began working at Dutton as an office boy; he would spend fifty-nine years with the company rising in the ranks. He became President in 1923, and in 1928 he bought the publishing house and shared it with his two sons. During his tenure, E. P. Dutton published notable books such as The Proper Bostonians by Cleveland Amory, Marchette Chute's Shakespeare of London, The Conquest of Everest by John Hunt, Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan, as well as works by Lawrence Durrell, Milton Glaser, and Luigi Pirandello. The company also went on to publish books by John Irving (The World According to Garp), Peter Matthiessen, Jorge Luis Borges, Gavin Maxwell, Joyce Carol Oates, Gail Sheehy (Passages), and Mickey Spillane.
A century and a half after Dutton sold its first book, the publishing house has maintained its ability to get great books into the hands of many readers. In 2006 and 2007 one in every four books published by Dutton hit the New York Times bestseller list. With an eye toward a focused list of titles, Dutton currently publishes 45 hardcovers a year, roughly half fiction and half non-fiction. Dutton is currently home to many #1 New York Times bestselling authors, most notably Harlan Coben, author of Hold Tight, Ken Follett, author of Pillars of the Earth and World Without End, Eckhart Tolle, author of A New Earth, and Al Franken, author of The Truth. Dutton also publishes the New York Times bestselling authors Eric Jerome Dickey, author of Pleasure and Waking with Enemies, Raymond Khoury, author of The Last Templar and The Sanctuary, John Lescroart, author of Betrayal and The Suspect, John Hodgman, author of The Areas of My Expertise and More Information Than You Require, John Jakes, author of Charleston and The Gods of Newport, Jenny McCarthy, author of Baby Laughs and Louder than Words, and Daniel Levitin, author of This is Your Brain on Music and The World in Six Songs.
Dutton is also home to many award-winning authors such as Diane Johnson, author of Le Divorce and Lulu in Marakech, Daniel Levitin, Timothy Keller, author of The Reason for God and The Prodigal God, Hari Kunzru, author of The Impressionist and My Revolutions, Darin Strauss, author of Chang and Eng and More Than It Hurts You, T. Jefferson Parker, author of L.A. Outlaws, and Jonathan King, author of Blue Edge of Midnight.
Brian Tart
President and Publisher
Brian Tart joined Dutton in 1998 as Editor-in-Chief, and soon after acquired Sylvia Browne's #1 bestselling books on spirituality, Wendy Northcutt's million-copy humor franchise The Darwin Awards, and Dave Pelzer's first hardcover bestseller, the two million-copy phenomenon, A Man Named Dave. He was named Publisher in 2004 and then President in 2005. Among the authors he has acquired and edited are spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle, author of the six-million copy #1 bestseller, A New Earth, which has spent seven months at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list; Rev. Timothy Keller, whose book,The Reason for God was World Magazine's Book of the Year in 2008, "Daily Show" Contributor John Hodgman, Dan Savage, national columnist and award-winning author of The Kid and The Commitment, Darin Strauss, Jennifer Lee Carrell, author of the international bestseller, Interred with their Bones and Stephen White, New York Times bestselling author of Kill Me and Dead Time. Before joining Dutton, Mr. Tart was a Senior Editor at Bantam Books where he started his publishing career as an editorial assistant.
Christine Ball
Director of Marketing and Publicity
Christine Ball joined Dutton in October 2008 as Director of Publicity and Marketing for Dutton. Prior to that she was the Publicity Director of Crown, Crown Forum, and Shaye Areheart Books where in addition to managing the lists and staff she personally orchestrated the campaigns for the New York Times bestsellers: The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama, The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferris, Look Me in the Eye by John Robison, Basic Black by Cathie Black, The Third Angel by Alice Hoffman, and Beautiful Lies by Lisa Unger, among many others. Prior to Crown, She was at Henry Holt & Company and before that Goldberg McDuffie Communications. Her publicity career began with Penguin Group (USA)'s Viking Penguin.
Amy Hertz
Editor at Large
Amy Hertz joined Dutton in 2007. During prior stints at Harper San Francisco, The Penguin Group and Random House, she published New York Times bestsellers that have become a part of the culture at large: The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, which has sold nearly two million copies world wide; The Art of Happiness, nearing 2 million copies sold in the United States alone and spending close to two years on The New York Times bestseller list; Eat Right 4 Your Type, which has spent 11 years in hardcover and spawned an 18-book franchise; Kitchen Table Wisdom, the gold standard for inspirational books during difficult times; Curves, the first book by the fastest growing franchise in America. Other New York Times bestsellers include Ethics for the New Millennium, The Female Brain, and The Universe in A Single Atom. Hertz began her career at Henry Holt and was a founding editor of Riverhead Books.
Stephen Morrow
Executive Editor
Stephen Morrow joined Dutton in 2006 as the editor specializing in nonfiction. He edits a wide range of science, economics, history, psychology, current affairs, adventure narratives, and investigative journalism. His authors include award-winning writer, music producer, and neuroscientist Daniel Levitin author of the New York Times bestseller This is Your Brain on Music and The World in Six Songs; economist and leading blogger Tyler Cowen's Create Your Own Economy; Principal Researcher at Microsoft and computer science legend Gordon Bell who is coauthoring Total Recall with Jim Gemmell; Jack Horner, the paleontologist behind Jurassic Park, coauthoring How To Build a Dinosaur with New York Times Science section editor James Gorman; and Laurence Smith whom Jared Diamond has dubbed "a charismatic rising star." Before coming to Dutton, Mr. Morrow founded the imprint Pi Press and the hard science list at Free Press where he began his trade publishing career.
Carrie Thornton
Executive Editor
Carrie Thornton joined Dutton in December of 2008. Prior to joining Dutton, she was the Publishing Manager and a Senior Editor at Three Rivers/Crown where she published the New York Times #1 bestsellers Why Do Men Have Nipples? and Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex? by Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg, the Quill-nominated New York Times bestseller Love is a Mix Tape, among many others. Carrie has also worked with Freaks and Geeks creator Paul Feig, SARK, Boondocks creator Aaron McGruder, and the editors of The Onion, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and Spin magazines. At Dutton, her list focuses on pop culture, humor, music, memoir and other narrative nonfiction.
Ben Sevier
Senior Editor
Ben Sevier joined Dutton as Senior Editor in January 2007. Ben's primary interest is fiction, especially thrillers, crime fiction and quality commercial fiction. His list includes the New York Times bestsellers Harlan Coben, Raymond Khoury, T. Jefferson Parker, and John Lescroart, as well as the New York Times Editor's Choice recipient Marcus Sakey (Good People), the visionary technologist/novelist Daniel Suarez (Daemon), and the international bestsellers Jeff Abbott (Collision) and Meg Gardiner (The Dirty Secrets Club). He is the editor of Selden Edwards's debut novel, The Little Book, David Lovelace's memoir Scattershot, and is editing the next novel from renowned author Jonathan Tropper, which will be published in 2009.
Erika Imranyi
Editor
Erika Imranyi joined Dutton as an editorial assistant in 2003. Her interests are women's fiction, literary suspense, and mainstream fiction, memoir, pop culture, and humor. Her list includes bestselling authors Eric Jerome Dickey, Wendy Northcutt of The Darwin Awards, Rachel Simon, and Sarah Strohmeyer.
