#2--Peter Osnos – Publisher of Public Affairs that published McClellan’s book.
Lisa Kaufman – McClellan’s Editor
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Peter Osnos
FOUNDER AND EDITOR-AT-LARGE
Peter Osnos was a correspondent around the world for The Washington Post and the newspaper's foreign and national editor. He was Associate Publisher and senior editor at Random House and publisher of Random House's Times Books division. In 1997, he founded PublicAffairs, an independent publishing company specializing in books of journalism, history, biography and social criticism. Among the authors he published at PublicAffairs are, Wesley Clark, Dorothy Height, Vernon Jordan, Wendy Kopp, Robert McNamara, Andy Rooney, Natan Sharansky, George Soros, Boris Yeltsin, and Muhammad Yunus, and journalists from America’s leading publications and prominent scholars.
He is executive director of The Caravan Project, funded by the MacArthur Foundation, which is developing a plan for multi-platform publishing of books. He is Vice Chairman of the Columbia Journalism Review and is active in a number of other journalism and human rights organizations. He writes a regular media column that is distributed by the Century Foundation (www.TCF.org). He is a graduate of Brandeis and Columbia Universities. He lives in Greenwich CT with his wife Susan, a consultant to human rights organizations.
Lisa Kaufman
MARKETING DIRECTOR AND SENIOR EDITOR
Lisa Kaufman directs PublicAffairs’ marketing, advertising, and promotion efforts while also acquiring and editing books. Books she has edited recently include The Fate of Africa by Martin Meredith, The Asian Mystique by Sheridan Prasso, Pipe Dreams: Ego, Greed, and the Death of Enron by Robert Bryce, The Cat from Hue: A Vietnam War Story by John Laurence, Gracefully Insane: Life and Death Inside America's Premier Mental Institution by Alex Beam, and Saving Milly: Love, Politics, and Parkinson’s Disease by Morton Kondracke. Before joining PublicAffairs, Kaufman was Senior Manager of Promotion at Viking Penguin, where she also spent four years as an editor.
Early in her career Kaufman worked as an intern for The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and as administrative assistant to writer James A. Michener. Her articles have appeared in The San Francisco Review of Books, The Christian Science Monitor, New Texas, and other publications. A graduate of Wesleyan University, she lives in Brooklyn with her two daughters. |
