Caroline Sutton Joins Avid Reader Press as V-P and Editorial Director

Caroline Sutton has joined Avid Reader Press as v-p and editorial director. 

Sutton was previously editor-in-chief of Avery, a nonfiction imprint of the Penguin Group at Penguin Random House. Prior to that, she was editor-in-chief of Hudson Street Press, also a Penguin Group imprint. During her 15-year tenure at PRH, she acquired and edited The Book of Joy by the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu, The XX Brain by Lisa Mosconi, Unwinding Anxiety by Judson Brewer, Fat Chance by Robert Lustig, and The First 20 Minutes by Gretchen Reynolds, and her list included Gisele Bündchen, Carol Dweck, and Dean Ornish, and Andrew Weil.

Sutton also spent nine years at Touchstone Fireside, which was founded in 1970 as the trade paperback division of Simon & Schuster, of which Avid Reader Press is an imprint. (It was shuttered in 2018.) There, she edited Life’s Greatest Lessons by Hal Urban, The Rhythm of Life by Matthew Kelly, and Life Lessons by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and David Kessler, and oversaw the paperback publications of books by Robert Stone, David McCullough, Andrew Solomon, Henry Kissinger, George H.W. Bush, Bob Woodward, and more.