The changes come during a period of rapid transformation at Penguin Random House, which has more than 275 imprints and is by far the biggest of the “big five” publishing companies in the United States. Desser edited are “destined to become classics” and praised her for “the joy she takes at working in the editorial trenches.”
In a note to staff, Sonny Mehta, Knopf’s chairman and editor in chief, said that some of the books Ms. Desser was a tastemaker who acquired and edited works by best-selling and award-winning authors like Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Edwidge Danticat, Jhumpa Lahiri, Valeria Luiselli, Julia Phillips, Arundhati Roy, Jane Smiley, Patti Smith and Cheryl Strayed. Ward’s role and become senior vice president and editor in chief of Random House. Robin Desser, the editorial director of the Penguin Random House imprint Alfred A. “Andy’s dedication to our books and authors - not to mention his passionate advocacy for our editors - is central to who he is, and to how he will lead this group going forward,” Gina Centrello, the president and publisher of Random House, wrote in a note to the staff announcing the change. He spent the last five years as Random House’s editor in chief, and helped to shape best sellers like Paul Kalanithi’s “ When Breath Becomes Air,” Lena Dunham’s “ Not That Kind of Girl” and Ed Catmull’s “ Creativity, Inc.” He will continue to acquire and edit new projects as publisher. Ward, a former magazine editor, joined Random House in 2009 as executive editor. On Monday, the company announced that Andy Ward, who has edited books by writers such as David Mitchell, George Saunders and Imbolo Mbue, will become the executive vice president and publisher of Random House. In a year already marked by turnover within publishing companies, Penguin Random House, the largest one in the United States, is further shuffling the decks.
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