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Frances Coady is a veteran British publisher. [1] [2] who started Vintage paperbacks [3] [4] [5] in the UK before moving to New York as the publisher of Picador, [6] where she is now a literary agent at the Aragi agency. [7]
Born in London, Frances Coady has degrees from the University of Sussex and the University of Essex. [8]
Coady began her publishing career in 1982 in London at Faber & Faber, [9] [10] where she published Self-Help by Lorrie Moore, [11] The Final Passage and The European Tribe by Caryl Phillips, [12] and Edward Said's The World, the Text, and the Critic and After the Last Sky. [9] In 1987, she became editorial director of Jonathan Cape [13] and was featured in "The Powers That Will Be – We Choose the People Who Will Run Britain In the Nineties" [14] in The Sunday Times Magazine . In 1989, she became the founding publisher of Vintage paperbacks [15] [3] [16] "whose stunning success launched a thousand embarrassing moments in editorial conferences throughout Britain", according to The Independent . [17] She continued to edit and publish authors including Edward Said ( Culture and Imperialism ); [18] Salman Rushdie ( The Moor's Last Sigh ) [19] [20] [21] and John Pilger [22] (A Secret Country).
In 1993, Coady became the publisher [23] of the newly created literary division of Random House UK, and "one of the most powerful women in British publishing". [17] She left Random House to relaunch Granta Books [24] as a fully independent publishing house publishing in 1997. [2] [25]
In 2000, Coady moved to New York to become the publisher of Picador USA, [26] an imprint of the Macmillan Group, which she turned into a paperback house with bestsellers and award-winning authors including Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay ; [27] Per Petterson's Out Stealing Horses , [28] Edmund De Waal's The Hare with Amber Eyes [29] and Edward St Aubyn's Patrick Melrose Novels. [30]
She also published Frances Coady Books within Henry Holt and Farrar Straus & Giroux, [31] including Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine ; [32] [33] Richard Powers' Generosity [34] and; Andrew Sean Greer's The Confessions of Max Tivoli. [35] Vintage originals included The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg [36] and Esi Edugyan's Half-Blood Blues . [37] In September 2012, Coady joined Scott Rudin and Barry Diller of IAC to found a new publishing house, Brightline, [38] which became Atavist Books. [39] Atavist Books launched in 2014 with Karen Russell's Sleep Donation [40]
As a literary agent at Aragi, Coady's authors include: Sharon Olds; Claudia Rankine; Ocean Vuong; Michael Cunningham, and Rebecca Solnit. [41]
Coady is married to the novelist Peter Carey. [42]
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