Jennifer Hershey

Jennifer Hershey oversees the Ballantine editorial department, in addition to acquiring and editing fiction and nonfiction. She edits a wide range of novelists including authors such as Jodi Picoult, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Isabel Allende, Colum McCann, Curtis Sittenfeld, Diana Gabaldon, Emily Giffin, Frances Cha, Katherine Arden, William Landay, Justin Cronin, and Arthur Phillips. Her nonfiction authors include Laura Hillenbrand and Carol Dweck, as well as the last two books from the late Stephen Hawking. She especially loves anything to do with outdoor adventure, travel, exploration, nature, and wildlife. As part of the Ballantine publishing group, Jennifer oversees the Bantam imprint, which brings her full circle to her first job in publishing at Bantam, where she acquired such authors as George R. R. Martin and Neal Stephenson.