Susanna Porter

Susanna Porter is an executive editor, acquiring both fiction and nonfiction. History is a passion for Susanna, which has led her to bestselling historical fiction like The Paris Wife by Paula McLain and, more recently, McLain’s first suspense novel, When the Stars Go Dark; Lisa Wingate’s Before We Were Yours and The Book of Lost Friends; Loving Frank by Nancy Horan; Pip Williams’s The Dictionary of Lost Words and The Bookbinder; Melanie Benjamin’s latest, California Golden; and novels by Alison Weir and the late Anne Perry. Her nonfiction bestsellers include The Eighty-Dollar Champion by Elizabeth Letts, Madame Fourcade’s Secret War by Lynne Olson, and The Emotional Lives of Teenagers and Untangled by Lisa Damour, as well as Lexington by Kim Wickens and Defiant Dreams by Sola Mahfouz and Malaina Kapoor. She is looking for well-written literary/commercial cross-over fiction (but no fantasy), especially historical fiction and/or novels set in foreign countries, challenging circumstances, or with some other added element that enriches the plot. Asian/Asian American authors and characters are a particular interest. She is also keen on narrative nonfiction, historical (or not) and character-driven, about science, animals, adventure, space, and just about anything else. Susanna has spent most of her career at Random House, including working for five years in PRH’s London offices.