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William J. Thomas
William J. Thomas is the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Doubleday. He joined the company as Editor in 1993, became Editor-in-Chief in 1998, and Publisher and Editor-in-Chief in 2008. During his tenure Doubleday has published hundreds of New York Times bestsellers, nine Pulitzer Prize Winners, three National Book Award winners, five National Book Critics Circle Award winners, several finalists for these prizes, over 125 New York Times Book Review Notable Books of the Year, several of which were Top Ten choices, many dozens of B&N Discover picks, Amazon Best Books of the Year, and Indie Next Picks.
In addition to his managerial duties, he also edits a select number of titles. New York Times bestsellers he has edited include the #1 bestsellers The Lost City of Z, The Wager, and Killers of the Flower Moon (National Book Award Finalist) by David Grann; the #1 bestsellers The Nickel Boys (Pulitzer Prize winner) and The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner) by Colson Whitehead; Empire of Pain (winner of the Baillie-Gifford Prize) and Say Nothing (National Book Critics Circle Award winner) by Patrick Radden Keefe; The Dark Side (Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Prize) and Dark Money (Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Prize) by Jane Mayer; The Wide Wide Sea, In the Kingdom of Ice, Blood and Thunder, and Ghost Soldiers (Winner of the PEN USA Award) by Hampton Sides; The Curious Incident of The Dog in the Night-Time (Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Whitbread Book of the Year) by Mark Haddon; King of Kings and Lawrence in Arabia by Scott Anderson; The Wave and The Underworld by Susan Casey; The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award) by Jonathan Lethem; The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender; Don’t Get Too Comfortable and Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish by David Rakoff; The River of Doubt, Destiny of the Republic, and River of the Gods by Candice Millard; Under the Banner of Heaven, Where Men Win Glory, and Missoula by Jon Krakauer; the #1 bestseller The Century by Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster; the #1 bestseller The Yankee Years by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci, and the #1 bestseller Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom.
Kristine Puopolo
Kristine Puopolo is Vice President, Editorial Director, Nonfiction, at Doubleday Books. She has edited bestselling and prize-winning nonfiction at Penguin Random House since 2001, including three books that were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction: Gulag (2003) by Anne Applebaum, The Dead Hand (2009) by David Hoffman, and Black Flags (2015) by Joby Warrick.
Her titles include the #1 New York Times bestseller Hidden Valley Road (2020) by Robert Kolker, one of the New York Times Book Review’s ten best books of the year; the #1 New York Times bestseller Framed by John Grisham and Jim McCloskey (2024); Two Roads Home (2023) by Daniel Finkelstein, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award; Under the Skin (2022) by Linda Villarosa, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; The Evolution of Beauty (2017) by Richard Prum, one of the New York Times Book Review’s ten best books of the year and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Strangers in the Land by Michael Luo (2025), and many New York Times bestsellers including: Miracles and Wonder by Elaine Pagels (2025), Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum (2024), When Women Ran Fifth Avenue by Julie Satow (2024), Why We Remember by Charan Ranganath (2024), The Divider: Trump in the White House (2022) and The Man Who Ran Washington (2020) by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser, More (2024) by Molly Roden Winter, I Survived Capitalism and All I Got was this Lousy T-shirt (2024) by TikTok star and CEO Madeline Pendleton, The Destructionists (2022) by Dana Milbank, Gods of the Upper Air (2019) by Charles King (finalist for The National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize), Richard Nixon (2017) by John A. Farrell (winner of the PEN Bograd/Weld Prize for Biography and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), The Billion Dollar Spy (2015) by David E. Hoffman, The General vs. the President (2016) by H. W. Brands, and The Teacher Wars (2014) by Dana Goldstein; plus Days of Fire (2013) by Peter Baker, one of the New York Times Book Review’s ten best books of the year, and Megan Stack’s Every Man in the Village is a Liar (2010), a finalist for the National Book Award.
Kris welcomes a wide variety of non-fiction submissions, especially in history, politics, current affairs, biography, narrative nonfiction, psychology, work/career, women’s issues, and memoir.
Lee Boudreaux
Lee Boudreaux, Vice President and Executive Editor, joined Doubleday in 2018 and publishes exclusively fiction, seeking out original voices notable for their mastery of language, commanding narrative momentum, and, oftentimes, sense of humor. She edited the #1 New York Times bestsellersJames by Percival Everett, which won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for fiction, and Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus. She currently publishes Margaret Atwood (Old Babes in the Wood), Kate Atkinson (Our Noble Selves, forthcoming), Kevin Barry (The Heart in Winter), Michael Crummey (The Adversary, winner of the Dublin Award), Pulitzer-prize winner Andrew Sean Greer (Villa Coco, forthcoming), Claire Lombardo (The Most Fun We Ever Had), Maria Reva (Endling, longlisted for the Booker Prize), Ron Rash (The Caretaker), and many others. From the beginning, she honed an eye for rising talent, acquiring the early works of Patrick deWitt, Madeline Miller, Paul Murray, Curtis Sittenfeld, and Kevin Wilson. Books she has edited have won or been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Booker Prize, the NBCC, the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Orange Prize, and numerous PEN awards.
Edward Kastenmeier
Edward Kastenmeier is Vice President and Executive Editor at Doubleday Books. Previously Editorial Director of Anchor Books, he has worked for the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group since 1991. He has published the bestselling works of Michio Kaku, Alan Lightman, Chris McDougall, Andrea Wulf, Brian Greene, Simon Sebag Montefiore and Leonard Mlodinow. In 2016, he published Heather Ann Thompson’s Blood in the Water, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for History. He has also published the mystery/thrillers of Brendan Slocumb, Jo Nesbo, Lars Kepler, Dan Fesperman, Charlotte Vassell, Amy McCulloch, Alexander McCall Smith, and James Ellroy and the literary, genre-pushing works of Terry Pratchett, Mark Z. Danielewski, Nick Harkaway and Kevin Brockmeier. Edward is interested in science, technology, narrative nonfiction, and mystery.
Jason Kaufman
Jason Kaufman, Vice President and Executive Editor, has edited bestselling commercial fiction and nonfiction at Doubleday since 2001, including Dan Brown’s international bestseller, The Da Vinci Code, which has sold a combined 235 million copies around the world. In acquiring new authors, Jason is always looking for unique commercial storytelling with a suspense or thriller element—authors who step outside of conventional models. He recently published #1 New York Times bestselling author Stacey Abrams’ thriller, While Justice Sleeps, in addition to bestsellers by Lincoln Child, Daniel H. Wilson (Robopocalypse) and Jeff Lindsay (Dexter series). He has also published a variety of bestsellers in narrative nonfiction and sports, including award-winning authors John Feinstein (Where Nobody Knows Your Name), Leigh Montville (The Big Bam, Ted Williams) and George Friedman (The Next 100 Years). Prior to arriving at Doubleday, he worked at Pocket Books, HarperCollins, and Turtle Bay Books.
Thomas Gebremedhin
Thomas Gebremedhin, Vice President and Executive Editor, Doubleday, and Editorial Director, Outsider Editions, joined Doubleday in 2020 following nearly a decade in magazines. His first acquisition at Doubleday was Hua Hsu’s Stay True, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Memoir or Autobiography and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography. It was also selected as one of The New York Times’ 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. His first novel at Doubleday, Dream State by Eric Puchner, was named a 2025 Oprah’s Book Club Pick.
In addition to Hsu and Puchner, he works with Maaza Mengiste, Benjamin Moser, Amanda Hess, Kyle Chayka, Vincent Bevins, Eric Lach, Jen Percy, Julie Phillips, Zach Williams, Merritt Tierce, Nell Irvin Painter, Josh Weil, David Klion, Aymann Ismail, and Tao Leigh Goffe, among others. His authors have won or been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize, the Booker Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. They have also made the New York Times bestseller list and been recognized on Barack Obama’s annual reading lists.
In early 2025, Thomas revealed the debut of Outsider Editions, a reissue series dedicated to bringing attention to significant literary works that have been largely neglected in discussions of the literary canon. Titles include Journey to Nowhere: A New World Tragedy by Shiva Naipaul, Natives of My Person by George Lamming, Squandering the Blue by Kate Braverman, Fixer Chao by Han Ong, and Beirut Fragments: A War Memoir by Jean Said Makdisi, among others.
Prior to Doubleday, he was a print editor at The Atlantic as well as the magazine’s fiction editor Since joining Doubleday, he has acquired and developed works of memoir, biography, history, criticism, essays, and literary fiction; he drawn to writers who interrogate themes of cultural, sociological, intellectual, or personal significance. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop (MFA), he believes that the best books begin at the level of the sentence.
Carolyn Williams
Carolyn Williams, Senior Editor, joined Doubleday in 2016, and acquires book club and upmarket commercial fiction and select nonfiction. She’s always on the lookout for page-turning novels featuring smart women, unreliable narrators, twisty plots, and memorable families, as well as memoirs and social or cultural histories. She gravitates toward plot-forward stories written from a new or outsider perspective, historical settings with a modern edge, literary and domestic suspense, coming-of-age stories, immigrant experiences, family sagas, realistic dialogue, stories with an emphasis on class disparity or social climbing, and contemporary novels featuring noir or procedural beats. Recent and upcoming projects include Ariel Lawhon’s GMA book club pick The Frozen River, Julie Satow’s New York Times bestseller When Women Ran Fifth Avenue, Lindsay Lynch’s national bestseller and Indie Next pick Do Tell, Allison Epstein’s Edgar-nominated Fagin the Thief, Flora Carr’s The Tower, Caroline Woods’ The Mesmerist, Avery Curran’s Spoiled Milk, Hannah Thurman’s Mercy Hill, and Alison Fragale’s Likeable Badass. Originally from Massachusetts, she lives in New York with her family.
Khari Dawkins
Khari Dawkins is an Associate Editor at Doubleday. A Bronx native, he earned his B.A. in Political Economy from Williams College. He assists Bill Thomas with his titles and editorial department duties, as well as acquiring his own projects. His recent acquisitions include The Secret Racist History of Everything by Kali Holloway which studies the racist origins of many American institutions, A Hollywood Ending by Yaron Weitzman that follows the last years of basketball star LeBron James career with the Lakers, and All of the Lights by Neil Shah which examines the place of rap in the music industry over the last decade. Khari is most excited by stories, fiction and nonfiction, that are immersive in their story-telling and compelling at the line level. He is interested in acquiring a range of nonfiction, including excavated and recontextualized histories, cultural criticism, and narrative journalism. He especially loves to come up with ideas for books that should be written, and work with agents to find writers who can bring them to fruition.
Chris Howard-Woods
Chris Howard-Woods is an Associate Editor at Doubleday. Chris joined Vintage in 2019 and moved to Doubleday in 2023. He focuses primarily on nonfiction. Recent and upcoming projects include Bettany Hughes’s The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, which became a Sunday Times bestseller in the UK, a number of works by Chester Himes, Arthur Goldwag’s The Politics of Fear, Kelly Jaakkola’s The Brilliance of Dolphins, Ainslie Hogarth’s Strange Harm, Kimon de Greef’s The Ego Trip, and a forthcoming book about climate and public health. Chris is interested in narratively compelling nonfiction that appeals to a wide readership and offers readers a new or underexplored perspective. Subjects of particular interest include nature, history, science, journalism, psychology, philosophy, medicine, social issues, essays and criticism, and narrative nonfiction generally. Chris has previous experience at OR Books and W. W. Norton.
Johanna Zwirner
Johanna Zwirner is an Assistant Editor at Doubleday, where she supports Thomas Gebremedhin, VP, Executive Editor and Carolyn Williams, Senior Editor. She works across literary fiction and nonfiction and is drawn to writers who incorporate humor in their storytelling and showcase a deep appreciation for language at the line level. She is interested in the meeting points of visual art and personal narrative and is compelled by investigative nonfiction that uses meticulous reportage to uncover and attempt to rectify social injustices. A few of her favorite books include Nell Zink’s Mislaid, Sigrid Nunez’s What Are You Going Through, Sally Mann’s Art Work, Patrick Radden Keefe’s Empire of Pain, and Ruby Tandoh’s All Consuming. The first author she worked with at Doubleday was Hua Hsu, whose memoir Stay True won the Pulitzer Prize in memoir and the National Book Critics Circle Award in autobiography. She has worked with Nell Irvin Painter, Maaza Mengiste, Amanda Hess, Eric Puchner, and Kyle Chayka, among other acclaimed authors. She studied English at Barnard College and was in the editorial department at Kirkus Reviews before joining Doubleday, and she is Executive Editor at November Magazine. She lives in New York.
Lily Dondoshansky
Lily Dondoshansky joined Doubleday as an Editorial Assistant in 2022, supporting Jason Kaufman and Cara Reilly. Previously, she interned at Smithsonian Books in Washington, DC and received B.A.s in English Literature and Government and Politics from the University of Maryland. She is drawn to character-driven, upmarket historical and contemporary fiction, as well as smart thrillers with a sharp voice and bright female characters. On the nonfiction side, she gravitates toward culturally relevant narrative nonfiction and social criticism that bridges the gaps in our understanding of history and politics.
Faith Griffiths
Faith Griffiths is an Editorial Assistant at Doubleday, where she supports Kristine Puopolo, Vice President, Editorial Director, Nonfiction. She has worked on books from a wide range of bestselling and award-winning authors, including Robert Kolker, Anne Applebaum, Elaine Pagels, Michael Luo, and H. W. Brands. Faith is drawn to immersive narrative nonfiction with a strong voice and is especially interested in books that explore the environment, women’s narratives, history, and memoir. She graduated from Brown University with a degree in English with Honors in Nonfiction Writing. Before joining Doubleday, Faith interned at The Ocean Project, a conservation nonprofit, and Orion, an environmental magazine.