Pamela Dorman Books
In January 2010, Pamela Dorman Books will launch its first hardcover list. The imprint will focus on books of the kind Dorman has published throughout her career: fiction, especially debut fiction that is both well-written and accessible, novels of character that are propelled by strong storytelling and a rich emotional core. These are books that are aimed at an upmarket popular audience, both literate and commercial, the kinds of novels that reading groups adopt, that we hope readers treasure, and that will have long lives in trade paperback ahead of them. We will also publish the occasional non-fiction title, especially books that have a distinctive voice and strong narrative drive, including memoirs and books geared towards women's interests.
Our inaugural list features three fiction debuts—Saving Ceecee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman, a make-you-laugh, make-you-cry Southern novel about a girl who loses one mother and finds many others; The Book Of Fires by Jane Borodale, about a girl in eighteenth-century London who becomes apprenticed to a mysterious fireworks maker; and a major international bestseller, The Solitude Of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano, that has already sold more than one-million copies in his native Italy.
Pamela Dorman
Vice-President, Publisher
In her more than twenty years at Viking Penguin, Pamela Dorman acquired and edited the multi-million copy #1 bestsellers The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards, Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding and The Deep End Of The Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard, which was the first selection of the Oprah Book Club, along with many other fiction and non-fiction bestsellers. In 2006, she became Vice-President, Editorial Director of Voice, a new imprint for women at Hyperion, where she acquired and edited the fiction bestsellers The Physick Book Of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe and The Monsters Of Templeton by Lauren Groff, and edited Candace Bushnell's One Fifth Avenue. She also acquired and edited the bestselling memoirs The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan, and Perfection by Julie Metz. She rejoined the Penguin Group in 2008 to found her eponymous imprint, Pamela Dorman Books. She began her publishing career at St. Martin's Press. Dorman is a summa cum laude graduate of Wesleyan University.
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