Thomas LeBien, a senior editor at Hill & Wang, has been named to succeed Elisabeth Sifton as publisher of the Farrar, Straus & Giroux division. Sifton, publisher of Hill & Wang since 1993, is stepping down to focus on her role as a senior v-p of FSG. She will also continue as an editor-at-large for Hill & Wang.

Before joining H&W in 2002, LeBien worked at Princeton University Press and Oxford University Press. At H&W he has published authors Eric Foner, Landon Jones and Roger Daniels.