Nonfiction

This site is intended for literary agents and prospective authors who are looking for an editor. I’ve listed many of the books I’ve acquired or edited in the hope that you’ll be able to discern enough of a sensibility to determine whether I’m the right reader for your work.

Here are some of the nonfiction books I’ve worked on across various categories, with one important caveat: What I’ve edited in the past does not augur what I hope to acquire in the future. In fact, I’m most interested in working on books that break new ground for me as well as for readers. I’m on the lookout for stand-up philosophers, heterodox historians, poetic scientists, and other rare literary creatures.

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Business

“One hell of a mogul memoir…great boardroom tales abound.”

—Deadline

Simon Six is what I love most about the publishing business – finding, editing, and being a champion for all kinds of authors:  journalists, novelists, thinkers, artists, and leaders.

As Publisher and Editor-in-Chief at Twelve (Hachette), I published one book per month, half of which were New York Times bestsellers. As Editorial Director of Simon Six, I will publish half as many books with twice as much emphasis.

Some of the best books I’ve worked on have been about things I knew little or nothing about. Like many readers, I am unpredictable—sometimes looking for new insights and sometimes looking for great entertainment. Like many editors, I want to help put books into the world that expand our understanding, challenge orthodoxies, and are useful, artful, and irresistibly interesting.

I’ll edit everything myself and partner with the teams at various Simon & Schuster imprints, to be determined on a book-by-book basis. My hope for Simon Six is that this imprimatur will signal to readers that these are books of quality, singularity, and relevance.

After 36 years, editing more than 200 books and overseeing the publication of at least 1,000 others, I’m looking for six more each year that will enlarge the lives of readers and are worthy of exhortation.

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#1 New York Times Bestseller and Winner of the 2016 Books for a Better Life Award

“If you feel stuck in your business or career, or if your company is failing to stay ahead of its competition, perhaps Grazer’s method of ‘curiosity conversations’ might provide the spark you need to ignite your best ideas.”

—Forbes

Finalist for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Book of the Year Award

“Refreshingly thought provoking.”

—The New York Times Book Review

Simon Six is what I love most about the publishing business – finding, editing, and being a champion for all kinds of authors:  journalists, novelists, thinkers, artists, and leaders.

As Publisher and Editor-in-Chief at Twelve (Hachette), I published one book per month, half of which were New York Times bestsellers. As Editorial Director of Simon Six, I will publish half as many books with twice as much emphasis.

Some of the best books I’ve worked on have been about things I knew little or nothing about. Like many readers, I am unpredictable—sometimes looking for new insights and sometimes looking for great entertainment. Like many editors, I want to help put books into the world that expand our understanding, challenge orthodoxies, and are useful, artful, and irresistibly interesting.

I’ll edit everything myself and partner with the teams at various Simon & Schuster imprints, to be determined on a book-by-book basis. My hope for Simon Six is that this imprimatur will signal to readers that these are books of quality, singularity, and relevance.

After 36 years, editing more than 200 books and overseeing the publication of at least 1,000 others, I’m looking for six more each year that will enlarge the lives of readers and are worthy of exhortation.

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  • The Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars by Joel Glenn Brenner (Random House, 1998)
  • The Nudist on the Late Shift: And Other True Tales of Silicon Valley by Po Bronson (Random House, 1999)
  • The Real Thing: Truth and Power at the Coca-Cola Company by Constance L. Hays (Random House, 2004)
  • Just Do It: The Nike Spirit in the Corporate World by Donald Katz (Random House, 1994)
  • Toy Wars: The Epic Struggle Between G.I. Joe, Barbie, and the Companies That Make Them by G. Wayne Miller (Times Books, 1998)
  • In Sam We Trust: The Untold Story of Sam Walton and Wal-Mart, the World’s Most Powerful Retailer by Bob Ortega (Times Books, 1998)
  • Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow’s Big Changes by Mark J. Penn with E. Kinney Zalesne (Twelve, 2017)
  • The Education of an American Dreamer: How a Son of Greek Immigrants Learned His Way from a Greek Diner to Washington, Wall Street, and Beyond by Peter G. Peterson (Twelve, 2009)
  • The Plot to Get Bill Gates: An Irreverent Investigation of the World’s Richest Man, and the People Who Hate Him by Gary Rivlin (Times Books, 1999)
  • Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle by Dan Senor and Saul Singer (Twelve, 2009)
  • aol.com by Kara Swisher (Times Books, 1998)
  • My Vast Fortune: The Money Adventures of a Quixotic Capitalist by Andrew Tobias (Random House, 1997)
  • The Entertainment Economy: How Mega Media Forces Are Changing Our Lives by Michael J. Wolf (Times Books, 1999)

Culture

“The great chronicler of our age of climate emergency, an inspirer of generations.”

—Greta Thunberg

Simon Six is what I love most about the publishing business – finding, editing, and being a champion for all kinds of authors:  journalists, novelists, thinkers, artists, and leaders.

As Publisher and Editor-in-Chief at Twelve (Hachette), I published one book per month, half of which were New York Times bestsellers. As Editorial Director of Simon Six, I will publish half as many books with twice as much emphasis.

Some of the best books I’ve worked on have been about things I knew little or nothing about. Like many readers, I am unpredictable—sometimes looking for new insights and sometimes looking for great entertainment. Like many editors, I want to help put books into the world that expand our understanding, challenge orthodoxies, and are useful, artful, and irresistibly interesting.

I’ll edit everything myself and partner with the teams at various Simon & Schuster imprints, to be determined on a book-by-book basis. My hope for Simon Six is that this imprimatur will signal to readers that these are books of quality, singularity, and relevance.

After 36 years, editing more than 200 books and overseeing the publication of at least 1,000 others, I’m looking for six more each year that will enlarge the lives of readers and are worthy of exhortation.

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“One of the most accomplished political and moral philosophers of our time.”

—William Adams, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts

  • How to Live: A Search for Wisdom from Old People by Henry Alford (Twelve, 2009)
  • The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse by Gregg Easterbrook (Random House, 2003)
  • God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens (Twelve, 2007)
  • Lapham’s Rules of Influence: A Careerist’s Guide to Success, Status, and Self-Congratulation by Lewis Lapham (Random House, 1999)
  • The Flickering Mind: The False Promise of Technology in the Classroom and How Learning Can Be Saved by Todd Oppenheimer (Random House, 2003)

History & Biography

“A beautifully written and superbly researched dual biography.”

—Los Angeles Times Book Review

Simon Six is what I love most about the publishing business – finding, editing, and being a champion for all kinds of authors:  journalists, novelists, thinkers, artists, and leaders.

As Publisher and Editor-in-Chief at Twelve (Hachette), I published one book per month, half of which were New York Times bestsellers. As Editorial Director of Simon Six, I will publish half as many books with twice as much emphasis.

Some of the best books I’ve worked on have been about things I knew little or nothing about. Like many readers, I am unpredictable—sometimes looking for new insights and sometimes looking for great entertainment. Like many editors, I want to help put books into the world that expand our understanding, challenge orthodoxies, and are useful, artful, and irresistibly interesting.

I’ll edit everything myself and partner with the teams at various Simon & Schuster imprints, to be determined on a book-by-book basis. My hope for Simon Six is that this imprimatur will signal to readers that these are books of quality, singularity, and relevance.

After 36 years, editing more than 200 books and overseeing the publication of at least 1,000 others, I’m looking for six more each year that will enlarge the lives of readers and are worthy of exhortation.

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“A portrait very much in three dimensions. It is the story of an extraordinary life.”

—Philadelphia Daily News

“Deft storytelling and convincing scholarship...does the seemingly impossible by bringing new life to perhaps our oldest true-crime saga.”

—Jon Meacham

Simon Six is what I love most about the publishing business – finding, editing, and being a champion for all kinds of authors:  journalists, novelists, thinkers, artists, and leaders.

As Publisher and Editor-in-Chief at Twelve (Hachette), I published one book per month, half of which were New York Times bestsellers. As Editorial Director of Simon Six, I will publish half as many books with twice as much emphasis.

Some of the best books I’ve worked on have been about things I knew little or nothing about. Like many readers, I am unpredictable—sometimes looking for new insights and sometimes looking for great entertainment. Like many editors, I want to help put books into the world that expand our understanding, challenge orthodoxies, and are useful, artful, and irresistibly interesting.

I’ll edit everything myself and partner with the teams at various Simon & Schuster imprints, to be determined on a book-by-book basis. My hope for Simon Six is that this imprimatur will signal to readers that these are books of quality, singularity, and relevance.

After 36 years, editing more than 200 books and overseeing the publication of at least 1,000 others, I’m looking for six more each year that will enlarge the lives of readers and are worthy of exhortation.

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  • Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand (Random House, 2001)
  • Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero by Chris Matthews (Simon & Schuster, 2011)
  • Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit by Chris Matthews (Simon & Schuster, 2017)
  • The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan by Rick Perlstein (Simon & Schuster, 2014)
  • Explaining Hitler by Ron Rosenbaum (Random House, 1999)
  • The Luckiest Man: Life with John McCain by Mark Salter (Simon & Schuster, 2020)
  • Diana in Search of Herself: Portrait of a Troubled Princess by Sally Bedell Smith (Times Books, 1999)
  • Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln by John Stauffer (Twelve, 2008)
  • Ponzi’s Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend by Mitchell Zuckoff (Random House, 2005)

Humor

“True to Colbert form, this book is witty, clever, and fun.”

—Esquire, Best Books of 2017

Simon Six is what I love most about the publishing business – finding, editing, and being a champion for all kinds of authors:  journalists, novelists, thinkers, artists, and leaders.

As Publisher and Editor-in-Chief at Twelve (Hachette), I published one book per month, half of which were New York Times bestsellers. As Editorial Director of Simon Six, I will publish half as many books with twice as much emphasis.

Some of the best books I’ve worked on have been about things I knew little or nothing about. Like many readers, I am unpredictable—sometimes looking for new insights and sometimes looking for great entertainment. Like many editors, I want to help put books into the world that expand our understanding, challenge orthodoxies, and are useful, artful, and irresistibly interesting.

I’ll edit everything myself and partner with the teams at various Simon & Schuster imprints, to be determined on a book-by-book basis. My hope for Simon Six is that this imprimatur will signal to readers that these are books of quality, singularity, and relevance.

After 36 years, editing more than 200 books and overseeing the publication of at least 1,000 others, I’m looking for six more each year that will enlarge the lives of readers and are worthy of exhortation.

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“Incredible…It’s like the best joke book you can buy.”

—Jimmy Fallon

“A welcome reminder of Maher’s funniness, his intelligence, his sanity....Maher’s observations are often as cutting as they’re well-written [and] come from a place of wit and education.”

—New York Post

Simon Six is what I love most about the publishing business – finding, editing, and being a champion for all kinds of authors:  journalists, novelists, thinkers, artists, and leaders.

As Publisher and Editor-in-Chief at Twelve (Hachette), I published one book per month, half of which were New York Times bestsellers. As Editorial Director of Simon Six, I will publish half as many books with twice as much emphasis.

Some of the best books I’ve worked on have been about things I knew little or nothing about. Like many readers, I am unpredictable—sometimes looking for new insights and sometimes looking for great entertainment. Like many editors, I want to help put books into the world that expand our understanding, challenge orthodoxies, and are useful, artful, and irresistibly interesting.

I’ll edit everything myself and partner with the teams at various Simon & Schuster imprints, to be determined on a book-by-book basis. My hope for Simon Six is that this imprimatur will signal to readers that these are books of quality, singularity, and relevance.

After 36 years, editing more than 200 books and overseeing the publication of at least 1,000 others, I’m looking for six more each year that will enlarge the lives of readers and are worthy of exhortation.

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  • Municipal Bondage: One Man’s Anxiety-Producing Adventures in the Big City by Henry Alford (Random House, 1994)‍
  • Sex and Sensibility: Ten Women Examine the Lunacy of Modern Love…in 200 Cartoons, Edited by Liza Donnelly (Twelve, 2008)‍
  • I Like It Better When You’re Funny by Charles Grodin (Random House, 2012)‍

Law

  • The Autobiography of an Execution by David Dow (Twelve, 2010)‍
  • ‍Scorpions: The Battles of FDR’s Great Supreme Court Justices by Noah Feldman (Twelve, 2010)‍
  • The Naked Crowd: Reclaiming Freedom and Security in an Anxious Age by Jeffrey Rosen (Random House, 2004)‍
  • The Unwanted Gaze: The Destruction of Privacy in America by Jeffrey Rosen (Random House, 2000)‍
  • Guilty: The Collapse of Criminal Justice by Judge Harold Rothwax (Random House, 1996)‍
  • Covering: The Hidden Assault on our Civil Rights by Kenji Yoshino (Random House, 2006)‍
  • Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary by Juan Williams (Times Books, 1998)

 Memoirs

“An utterly unique, endlessly exhilarating, last-chance-power-drive of a memoir.”

—Rolling Stone

Simon Six is what I love most about the publishing business – finding, editing, and being a champion for all kinds of authors:  journalists, novelists, thinkers, artists, and leaders.

As Publisher and Editor-in-Chief at Twelve (Hachette), I published one book per month, half of which were New York Times bestsellers. As Editorial Director of Simon Six, I will publish half as many books with twice as much emphasis.

Some of the best books I’ve worked on have been about things I knew little or nothing about. Like many readers, I am unpredictable—sometimes looking for new insights and sometimes looking for great entertainment. Like many editors, I want to help put books into the world that expand our understanding, challenge orthodoxies, and are useful, artful, and irresistibly interesting.

I’ll edit everything myself and partner with the teams at various Simon & Schuster imprints, to be determined on a book-by-book basis. My hope for Simon Six is that this imprimatur will signal to readers that these are books of quality, singularity, and relevance.

After 36 years, editing more than 200 books and overseeing the publication of at least 1,000 others, I’m looking for six more each year that will enlarge the lives of readers and are worthy of exhortation.

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“Wise, hilarious, and sometimes screwy...an inspiring change of pace from the way fathers usually are depicted…a highly lovable book.”

—The Portland Oregonian

“Raw and risky.”

—The New York Times Book Review

Simon Six is what I love most about the publishing business – finding, editing, and being a champion for all kinds of authors:  journalists, novelists, thinkers, artists, and leaders.

As Publisher and Editor-in-Chief at Twelve (Hachette), I published one book per month, half of which were New York Times bestsellers. As Editorial Director of Simon Six, I will publish half as many books with twice as much emphasis.

Some of the best books I’ve worked on have been about things I knew little or nothing about. Like many readers, I am unpredictable—sometimes looking for new insights and sometimes looking for great entertainment. Like many editors, I want to help put books into the world that expand our understanding, challenge orthodoxies, and are useful, artful, and irresistibly interesting.

I’ll edit everything myself and partner with the teams at various Simon & Schuster imprints, to be determined on a book-by-book basis. My hope for Simon Six is that this imprimatur will signal to readers that these are books of quality, singularity, and relevance.

After 36 years, editing more than 200 books and overseeing the publication of at least 1,000 others, I’m looking for six more each year that will enlarge the lives of readers and are worthy of exhortation.

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  • Never Have Your Dog Stuffed by Alan Alda (Random House, 2005)
  • Theater Kid by Jeffrey Seller (Simon & Schuster, 2025)
  • The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky: A True Story by Ken Dornstein (Random House, 2006)
  • The Garner Files by James Garner with John Winokur (Simon & Schuster, 2011)
  • Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens (Twelve,2010)
  • The Accidental Asian by Eric Liu (Random House, 1998)
  • Love Life by Rob Lowe (Simon & Schuster, 2014)
  • Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir by Linda Ronstadt (Simon & Schuster, 2013)
  • They’re Playing Our Song by Carole Bayer Sager (Simon & Schuster, 2016)
  • Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story by Arnold Schwarzenegger (Simon & Schuster, 2012)
  • Ordinary Girl by Donna Summer with Marc Eliot (Villard, 2003)
  • Immortal Bird by Doron Weber (Simon & Schuster, 2012)

Narrative Nonfiction

“Like Capote’s In Cold Blood, this tour de force gets below the who and the what of a horrifying incident to lay bare the devastating why.”

—People

Simon Six is what I love most about the publishing business – finding, editing, and being a champion for all kinds of authors:  journalists, novelists, thinkers, artists, and leaders.

As Publisher and Editor-in-Chief at Twelve (Hachette), I published one book per month, half of which were New York Times bestsellers. As Editorial Director of Simon Six, I will publish half as many books with twice as much emphasis.

Some of the best books I’ve worked on have been about things I knew little or nothing about. Like many readers, I am unpredictable—sometimes looking for new insights and sometimes looking for great entertainment. Like many editors, I want to help put books into the world that expand our understanding, challenge orthodoxies, and are useful, artful, and irresistibly interesting.

I’ll edit everything myself and partner with the teams at various Simon & Schuster imprints, to be determined on a book-by-book basis. My hope for Simon Six is that this imprimatur will signal to readers that these are books of quality, singularity, and relevance.

After 36 years, editing more than 200 books and overseeing the publication of at least 1,000 others, I’m looking for six more each year that will enlarge the lives of readers and are worthy of exhortation.

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  • The Lizard King: The True Crimes and Passions of the World’s Greatest Reptile Smugglers by Bryan Christy (Twleve, 2008)
  • The Lady and the Panda: The True Adventures of the First American Explorer to Bring Back China’s Most Exotic Animal by Vicki Constantine Croke (Random House, 2005)
  • The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime by Miles Harvey (Random House, 2000)
  • The Work of Human Hands: Hardy Hendren and Surgical Wonder at Children’s Hospital by G. Wayne Miller (Random House, 1993)
  • War of the Whales by Joshua Horwitz (Simon & Schuster, 2015)
  • War by Sebastian Junger (Twelve, 2010)
  • The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food by Jennifer 8. Lee (Twelve, 2008)
  • Shadow Divers: The True Adventures of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II by Robert Kurson (Random House, 2004)
  • Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Popular Culture by David Kushner (Random House, 2003)
  • The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession by Susan Orlean (Random House, 1999)
  • The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank by David Plotz (Random House, 2005)
  • The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World by Eric Weiner (Twelve, 2008)

Political Memoirs

Kamala Harris tells the story of one of the wildest and most consequential presidential campaigns in American history.

“A subtle, finely calibrated work.”

—The New York Times

“Remarkable....a book-length meditation on what it means to face the hard challenges of long life and the sobering likelihood of imminent death.”

—The Boston Globe

#1 New York Times bestseller

“Deeply affecting….heartfelt…Mr. Kennedy’s conversational gifts as a storyteller and his sense of humor shine through.”

—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

  • 107 DAYS by Kamala Harris (Simon & Schuster, 2025). Co-edited with Dawn Davis.
  • What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton (Simon & Schuster, 2017). Co-edited with Priscilla Painton.
  • The Negotiator by George J. Mitchell (Simon & Schuster, 2016)
  • The Good Fight by Gary Hart (Random House, 1993)
  • Faith of My Fathers by John McCain and Mark Salter (Random House, 1999)
  • The Waxman Report by Henry Waxman with Joshua Green (Twelve, 2009)
  • The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda by Paul Wellstone (Random House, 2001)

Popular Culture

“A superb, highly entertaining history of one of television’s most beloved sitcoms.”

—Shelf Awareness

Simon Six is what I love most about the publishing business – finding, editing, and being a champion for all kinds of authors:  journalists, novelists, thinkers, artists, and leaders.

As Publisher and Editor-in-Chief at Twelve (Hachette), I published one book per month, half of which were New York Times bestsellers. As Editorial Director of Simon Six, I will publish half as many books with twice as much emphasis.

Some of the best books I’ve worked on have been about things I knew little or nothing about. Like many readers, I am unpredictable—sometimes looking for new insights and sometimes looking for great entertainment. Like many editors, I want to help put books into the world that expand our understanding, challenge orthodoxies, and are useful, artful, and irresistibly interesting.

I’ll edit everything myself and partner with the teams at various Simon & Schuster imprints, to be determined on a book-by-book basis. My hope for Simon Six is that this imprimatur will signal to readers that these are books of quality, singularity, and relevance.

After 36 years, editing more than 200 books and overseeing the publication of at least 1,000 others, I’m looking for six more each year that will enlarge the lives of readers and are worthy of exhortation.

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The lives and legacies of the Gershwins—told through stories of twelve of their greatest songs.

  • Song of Spider-Man: The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History by Glen Berger (Simon & Schuster, 2013)
  • The Rolling Stone Book of Women in Rock: Trouble Girls, Edited by Barbara O’Dair (Random House, 1997)

Practical Nonfiction

  • The Practical Guide to Practically Everything: Information You Can Really Use by Peter Bernstein and Christopher Ma (Random House, 1995, 1996, 1997)
  • What Should I Do With My Life: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question by Po Bronson (Random House, 2003)
  • Why Do I Love These People: Understanding, Surviving, and Creating Your Own Family by Po Bronson (Random House, 2005)
  • The Essential Conversation: What Parents and Teachers Can Learn from Each Other by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot (Random House, 2003)
  • Why Courage Matters: The Way to a Braver Life by John McCain and Mark Salter (Random House, 2004)
  • My Little Red Book, an anthology of stories about first periods edited by Rachel Kauder Nalebuff (Twelve, 2009)
  • The Wisdom of Big Bird (and the Dark Genius of Osar the Grouch): Lessons from a Life in Feathers by Caroll Spinney with J Milligan (Villard, 2003)
  • The Cathedral Within: Transforming Your Life by Giving Something Back by Bill Shore (Random House, 1999)
  • Uncle Sam’s Guide to the Great Outdoors: The Ultimate Sourcebook to Go America’s Magnificent Public Lands by Raphael Sagalyn and the Staff of Inside Information (Random House, 1998)

Psychology/Science

  • Ah-Choo: The Uncommon Life of Your Common Cold by Jennifer Ackerman (Twelve, 2010)
  • Nurtureshock: New Thinking About Children by Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman (Twelve, 2009)
  • The Liar in Your Life: The Way to Truthful Relationships by Robert Feldman (Twelve, 2009)
  • The Rock from Mars: A Detective Story on Two Planets by Kathy Sawyer (Random House, 2006)

Topical Nonfiction

“A huge bestseller, as it should be. An amazing book.”

—Wolf Blitzer, CNN

Simon Six is what I love most about the publishing business – finding, editing, and being a champion for all kinds of authors:  journalists, novelists, thinkers, artists, and leaders.

As Publisher and Editor-in-Chief at Twelve (Hachette), I published one book per month, half of which were New York Times bestsellers. As Editorial Director of Simon Six, I will publish half as many books with twice as much emphasis.

Some of the best books I’ve worked on have been about things I knew little or nothing about. Like many readers, I am unpredictable—sometimes looking for new insights and sometimes looking for great entertainment. Like many editors, I want to help put books into the world that expand our understanding, challenge orthodoxies, and are useful, artful, and irresistibly interesting.

I’ll edit everything myself and partner with the teams at various Simon & Schuster imprints, to be determined on a book-by-book basis. My hope for Simon Six is that this imprimatur will signal to readers that these are books of quality, singularity, and relevance.

After 36 years, editing more than 200 books and overseeing the publication of at least 1,000 others, I’m looking for six more each year that will enlarge the lives of readers and are worthy of exhortation.

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“An amazing, intense, and very troubling read…It’s a fantastic book.”

—Jake Tapper, CNN

“The shocking, breaking news is the biggest Oct surprise of the 21st century.”

—Lawrence O’Donnell, MSNBC

Simon Six is what I love most about the publishing business – finding, editing, and being a champion for all kinds of authors:  journalists, novelists, thinkers, artists, and leaders.

As Publisher and Editor-in-Chief at Twelve (Hachette), I published one book per month, half of which were New York Times bestsellers. As Editorial Director of Simon Six, I will publish half as many books with twice as much emphasis.

Some of the best books I’ve worked on have been about things I knew little or nothing about. Like many readers, I am unpredictable—sometimes looking for new insights and sometimes looking for great entertainment. Like many editors, I want to help put books into the world that expand our understanding, challenge orthodoxies, and are useful, artful, and irresistibly interesting.

I’ll edit everything myself and partner with the teams at various Simon & Schuster imprints, to be determined on a book-by-book basis. My hope for Simon Six is that this imprimatur will signal to readers that these are books of quality, singularity, and relevance.

After 36 years, editing more than 200 books and overseeing the publication of at least 1,000 others, I’m looking for six more each year that will enlarge the lives of readers and are worthy of exhortation.

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  • The Money Men: The Real Story of Fund-raising’s Influence on Political Power in America by Jeffrey Birnbaum (Times Books, 2000)
  • Madhouse: The Private Turmoil of Working for the President by Jeffrey Birnbaum (Times Books, 1996)
  • The Man from Pakistan: The True Story of the World’s Most Dangerous Smuggler by Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins (Twelve, 2008)
  • A Future Perfect: The Challenge and Hidden Promise of Globalization by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge (Times Books, 2000)
  • First Son: George W. Bush and the Bush Family Dynasty by Bill Minutaglio (Times Books, 1999)
  • The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict Between Iran and America by Kenneth Pollack (Random House, 2004)
  • The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq by Kenneth Pollack
  • The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America by Robert Scheer (Twelve, 2008)
  • The Commission: An Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation by Philip Shenon (Twelve, 2008)
  • The Prince of Providence: The Rise and Fall of Buddy CIanci, America’s Most Notorious Mayor by Mike Stanton (Random House, 2002)
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