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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; 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 many bestselling novels by Alison Weir and Anne Perry.  Upcoming fiction includes novels by Fiona Valpy, Linda Wilgus, Eve Chase, and Jessica Goldstein. Her nonfiction bestsellers include The Eighty-Dollar Champion and The Secret Horse by Elizabeth Letts, Madame Fourcade’s Secret War by Lynne Olson, and Untangled and The Emotional Lives of Teenagers by Lisa Damour. Susanna is looking for well-written literary/commercial crossover fiction (light fantasy, but no romance or horror). She is also keen on narrative nonfiction, historical (or not) and character-driven work, about science, animals, 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.

Categories: Action & Adventure  |  Asian Voices  |  Biography & Memoir  |  Commercial Fiction  |  Historical Fiction  |  History  |  International Fiction  |  Narrative Nonfiction