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Sarah McGrath is Vice President and Executive Editor of Riverhead Books. Prior to coming to Riverhead in 2006 she was Senior Editor at Scribner, where she worked for eight years and acquired and edited a combination of literary fiction and narrative nonfiction.
At Scribner she discovered such fiction writers as Maile Meloy (Half in Love won the Pen/Malamud Award; Liars and Saints was shortlisted for the 2005 Orange Prize), and Aryn Kyle (The God of Animals was a New York Times bestseller). She also acquired the first novels of graphic designer Chip Kidd and New Yorker humorist Patricia Marx, as well as books by such bestselling and award-winning fiction writers as Anita Diamant, Meg Wolitzer, and Antonya Nelson. She also edited Kate Walbert's novel Our Kind, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Narrative nonfiction authors that Ms. McGrath acquired and edited while at Scribner included bestselling writers Diane Ackerman, Alison Smith, and George Howe Colt, whose book, The Big House, was a finalist for the National Book Award.
Since coming to Riverhead, Ms. McGrath has edited Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns (an instant #1 New York Times bestseller), the first adult novel (also a New York Times bestseller) by Ann Brashares, and books by Chang-rae Lee, Maxine Swann, Rebecca Walker, and Martha Moody.
Before her tenure at Scribner, Ms. McGrath spent two years at Knopf, where she worked for Editor-in-Chief and Publisher Sonny Mehta. She graduated from Harvard University and worked as a researcher and reporter at Newsweek before entering book pub | 