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2001 Judges Panel Sarah Crichton Digby Diehl
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Sarah CrichtonAuthorFormer VP & Publisher/Little , Brown & CompanyNew York
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2001 Judges Panel Sarah Crichton Digby Diehl
Dorothee Grisebach David Klatell Hermann Rotermund Robbie Stamp Walter Walker Nick Webb Honor Wilson-Fletcher
Sarah Crichton
AuthorFormer VP & Publisher/Little , Brown & CompanyNew York
In February 2001 , Sarah Crichton stepped down as vice president and publisher of Little , Brown and Company , where she had overseen all aspects of the adult trade division of the 163-year-old publishing house.Crichton joined Little , Brown in February 1996 and was responsible for re-energizing the venerable publishing company , which is a division of AOL Time Warner Trade Publishing.
Crichton , 46 , is currently working with former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on her memoirs for Talk Miramax Books , and is collaborating with Senator Joseph Lieberman and his wife , Hadassah Lieberman , on an account of life on the campaign trail , which Simon & Schuster will publish in the fall of 2002.
In her five years with the publishing house , Crichton steered the company to its most profitable fiscal year ever , publishing a diverse range of commercial bestsellers and critically lauded fiction and nonfiction.In 1999 , the house was blessed with three Oprah Book Club picks within a four-month period.But even without the help of Oprah , in 2000 , Little , Brown boasted nine Publishers Weekly bestsellers , and fully one-quarter of the hardcovers published that year were reviewed by the daily New York Times.In just one month at the start of 2001 , three covers of the Times Book Review were devoted to Little , Brown books - Gary Giddins's seminal biography of Bing Crosby ( which Crichton also edited ) , John Aloysius Farrell's biography of Tip O'Neill and Rick Moody's short story collection , DEMONOLOGY.
Over her five years at Little , Brown , Crichton published such newsmaking nonfiction as Malcolm Gladwell's THE TIPPING POINT , George Stephanopoulos's ALL TOO HUMAN , Peter Guralnick's CARELESS LOVE : The Unmaking of Elvis Presley , and Seymour Hersh's THE DARK SIDE OF CAMELOT.During those years , the house turned the spotlight on such exciting young writers as David Sedaris , most recently with ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY ; the fiction and essays of David Foster Wallace ; the genre-bending crime writing of George Pelecanos ; and the radiant first novels of Tony Earley ( JIM THE BOY ) , Janet Fitch ( WHITE OLEANDER ) and Jodie Shields ( THE FIG EATER ).
Overall frontlist sales per title increased 64 % from 1998 to 2001 , in part ( but certainly not only ) because the sales for L , B's veteran authors kept growing in leaps and bounds.There was James Patterson with his compulsive page-turners ; Michael Connelly and his sophisticated crime novels ; Anita Shreve and such explorations of the heart as THE PILOT's WIFE ; and John Feinstein's explorations of American sport.
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Crichton Came to Little , Brown in February , 1996 from Newsweek Magazine , where she was one of the Wallendas , which is what Newsweek's top editors are called in recognition of the balancing acts they perform each week.Part of the team that earned Newsweek the coveted National Magazine Award for General Excellence in 1993 , Crichton was appointed assistant managing editor in July 1992.As such , she helped set the magazine's editorial direction and was responsible for its Back of the Book pages - the Society , Lifestyle and Arts sections.
Crichton was also author of the provocative cover story , Sexual Correctness : Has It Gone Too Far ( October 1993 ) , and for another Newsweek cover story , conducted the first U.S. interview with novelist Salman Rushdie after he had gone into hiding.
She joined Newsweek in 1988 , as senior editor for the magazine's Arts section.She came to Newsweek from Seventeen Magazine , where in four years she was promoted from articles editor to senior editor , managing editor and lastly , editor of the 1.8 million circulation magazine.
Before then , she was on staff at several newspapers and was a freelance writer , writing primarily about the arts and women's issues for Harper's , the New York Times , Ms. , Esquire , Redbook , Saturday Review , and many other publications.
Crichton graduated from Harvard/Radcliffe in 1975 with honors.She lives with her husband , writer Guy Martin , and their daughter in Brooklyn.She is the daughter of award-winning documentary producer Judy Crichton , founder and executive producer of WGBH's The American Experience , and the late novelist Robert Crichton.
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