Little, Brown's Reagan Arthur Gets Eponymous Imprint

By Lynn Andriani -- Publishers Weekly, 10/9/2008 7:45:00 AM

Little, Brown editor Reagan Arthur has her own imprint: Reagan Arthur Books. Arthur has had a string of critical and commercial successes at Little, Brown, including Elizabeth Kostova’s The Historian and Joshua Ferris’s Then We Came to the End—and just last week signed a deal with writer and actor Tina Fey.

The first list for Reagan Arthur Books will appear in fall 2009, and the house estimates that the imprint will grow to 15 to 20 books a year by 2012. In her new role, Arthur will continue to report to Little, Brown editor-in-chief Geoff Shandler. Joining her team will be Oliver Haslegrave as associate editor and Marlena Bittner as assistant director of publicity. Additional support staff will be appointed in the weeks ahead.

LB executive v-p and publisher Michael Pietsch said Arthur’s “association with a book has come to signify a work of quality with a clear commercial hook, and by emblazoning her name on the book itself our goal is to carry that imprimatur of quality to the reading public.”

Among Arthur’s other books are Elin Hilderbrand’s Barefoot, Kate Atkinson’s Case Histories, George Pelecanos’s The Night Gardener, Kathleen Kent’s The Heretic’s Daughter and Kate Braestrup’s Here If You Need Me.