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Jennifer Barth

Senior Vice President, Executive Editor
A graduate of Yale University, Jennifer Barth has worked in publishing for over thirty years, fifteen of which were spent at the Harper imprint of HarperCollins. In January 2022 she joined Knopf as a Senior Vice President and Executive Editor; she is now overseeing the editorial direction of the Vintage Originals list as well. She edits both fiction and nonfiction; authors she’s worked with include Charles Blow, Michael Chabon, Bernard Cornwell, Uzodinma Iweala, Mary Karr, Michelle McNamara, Armistead Maupin, Caitlin Moran, Peggy Orenstein, Daniel Silva, Garth Stein, Jess Walter, and Jacqueline Winspear. Upcoming publications include novels by Alafair Burke, Jo Nesbø, and Kimberly McCreight, and nonfiction by Jon Batiste, Peter Beinart, and Aimee Mann. Jennifer lives with her husband on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where they raised their two now adult children. She serves on the board of the Bronx Letters Foundation.   

Diana Tesdell

Senior Editor
Diana Tesdell has degrees in history and literature from Harvard and Princeton and has spent her entire career in the Knopf Group, where she oversees Vintage Classics paperbacks and the Everyman’s Library series of hardcover classics. At Vintage she has acquired and edited a number of nonfiction titles over the years, including James Baldwin’s I Am Not Your Negro, Moises Kaufman and Tectonic Theater Project’s Moment Work, and Phillip Lopate’s The Glorious American Essay, and she publishes the annual O. Henry Prize anthology of literary short stories. She recently started a line of Vintage Mystery Classics, featuring new editions of Golden Age mysteries by writers including Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Maurice Leblanc. In a side role as a literary anthologist, she has produced fifteen themed anthologies of classic short fiction for Everyman’s Library, on subjects ranging from New York Stories to Love Stories to Stories of Art and Artists.  

Ellie Pritchett

Associate Editor
Ellie Pritchett joined Vintage in 2019 and edits paperback original literary fiction and voice-driven nonfiction for Vintage Originals. Her recent titles include Suzanne Scanlon’s Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen, Alana Saab’s Please Stop Trying to Leave Me, and Elizabeth Staple’s The Snap; upcoming titles include William Melvin Kelley’s Dis//Integration and a new essay collection by bestselling humorist Samantha Irby. She also edits the occasional title for Vintage Classics and backlist, including Vintage’s extensive James Baldwin list. She lives in Cambridge, MA, with her wife.