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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 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; Melanie Benjamin’s latest, The Children’s Blizzard; Pip Williams’s The Dictionary of Lost Words; and novels by Alison Weir and Anne Perry. Her nonfiction bestsellers include The Eighty-Dollar Champion by Elizabeth Letts, Madame Fourcade’s Secret War by Lynne Olson, and Untangled by Lisa Damour. She is looking for well-written literary/commercial cross-over fiction (but no fantasy). 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