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Pantheon

Pantheon

Pantheon was founded in 1942 by Kurt Wolff and his wife, Helen, and acquired by Random House in 1961. Today, Pantheon is a part of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group at Penguin Random House and continues its mission of publishing world-class literature and works in translation. With a commitment to inventive yet rigorous nonfiction as well as literary fiction that breaks form, Pantheon has a tradition of publishing diverse voices and ideas. Its authors include Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Anton Chekov, Noam Chomsky, Mark Z. Danielewski, Helen Garner, James Gleick, Tony Horwitz, Margo Jefferson, Ha Jin, Laila Lalami, Ali Smith, Wole Soyinka, Heather Ann Thompson, and Charles Yu. 
 
Pantheon Books is also the leading trade publisher of graphic novels. Beginning with Art Spiegelman’s pioneering and critically acclaimed Maus in the 1980s and expanding with the work of Marjane Satrapi and Chris Ware, today the Pantheon Graphic Library features some of the most celebrated creators in the genre and their masterful novels, memoirs, and nonfiction works. Its authors include Charles Burns, Sammy Harkham, Ben Katchor, Richard McGuire, Deena Mohamed, Ben Passmore, Kristen Radtke, Gengoroh Tagame, and Craig Thompson. 

Meet the Team

Lisa Kwan

Assistant Editor

Lisa Kwan is an assistant editor at Pantheon Books. They have worked alongside authors such as Margo Jefferson, Samantha Irby, Mark Z. Danielewski, Keith O’Brien, Susanna Moore, and Gregory Pardlo, among others. Lisa is interested in literary, upmarket, and genre-bending fiction that is immersive and character-driven, and that speaks to a contemporary issue or idea, whether it be political, philosophical, or whimsical. On the nonfiction side, they are drawn to works of cultural criticism, literary memoir, investigative journalism, and narrative nonfiction, particularly those that explore gender, sexuality, social inequity, diaspora, or a particular subculture. Lisa graduated from the University of Oregon with a double major in anthropology and French. They live in Brooklyn, New York. 

Natalia Berry

Editorial Assistant 

Natalia Berry is an editorial assistant at Pantheon Books. Natalia is interested in literary and upmarket women’s fiction, genre-bending fiction, thrillers, speculative literature, and the occasional horror novel. On the nonfiction side, she enjoys immersive journalism, reporting on understudied history and subcultures, smart pop culture and film critique, and projects investigating labor issues, reproductive justice, and immigration. Natalia is drawn to projects that amplify Black voices throughout the diaspora and underrepresented Queer identities. She has worked alongside authors such as Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Rachel Slade, Damon Young, Yoko Ogawa, Laila Lalami, and Jenn Shapland. A graduate of The New School, she lives in New York City. 

Zuleima Ugalde

Editorial Assistant 

Zuleima UgaldeZuleima Ugalde is an editorial assistant at Pantheon and Alfred A. Knopf, supporting the desks of Deb Garrison and Diana Miller. At Pantheon and Schocken, Zuleima has worked alongside authors such as Joseph O’Neill, Boo Trundle, Jonathan Wilson, Laura Warrell, Alexis Landau, and many others. Her favorite reads include literary fiction that is thought-provoking, transportive historical fiction that captures a unique sense of time and place, and narrative and literary nonfiction projects with a spirit of intellectual inquiry, and she is looking to acquire books in the same vein. She lives in New York City and enjoys searching for good reading spots throughout the city. 

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