The State of Book Publishing Today: Master Webinar w/ Jonathan Burnham & David Kuhn

Jonathan Burnham is President and Publisher of the Harper Group at HarperCollins, overseeing imprints which include Harper, Harper Perennial, Harper Business, Harper Edge, Harper Influence, Broadside Books, and Ecco. His authors include Ann Patchett, Louise Erdrich, Barbara Kingsolver, Michael Chabon, Daniel Silva, Nicole Krauss, and Anthony Horowitz. Burnham has more than 30 years of experience in publishing both in the UK and US. Prior to joining HarperCollins, he was the President and Editor-in-Chief of Miramax Books. He had previously served as Executive Editor at Viking Penguin U.S., after spending five years as Publishing Director of Chatto & Windus, an imprint of Random House U.K. A London native, Burnham graduated from Oxford University. He is currently a Senior Conservator at New York Public Library, and is on the board of MacDowell.

David Kuhn has represented #1 New York Times bestsellers, Pulitzer Prize-winners, and books by MacArthur Genius Fellows; his clients include New York Times and Wall Street Journal reporters, New Yorker writers, Senators and Congressmen, public intellectuals, journalists, activists, historians, actors, comedians, musicians, and many others. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College and before becoming a literary agent was a Senior Editor at Vanity Fair, Features Director at The New Yorker, and Editor in Chief at Brill’s Content. His full bio can be found here.