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Frances Coady

Frances Coady is a veteran British publisher[1][2] who started Vintage paperbacks[3] in the UK before moving to New York as the publisher of Picador[4] where she is now a literary agent at the Aragi agency.

Early Life

Born in London, Frances Coady has degrees from the University of Sussex and the University of Essex[5].

Career

Coady began her publishing career in 1982 in London at Faber & Faber[6] where she published Self Help by Lorrie Moore, The Final Passage and The European Tribe by Caryl Philips, and Edward Said’s The World, the Text, and the Critic[6] and After the Last Sky. In 1987 she became editorial director of Jonathan Cape[7] and was featured in The Powers That Will Be - We choose the People Who Will Run Britain In the Nineties[8] in the Sunday Times Magazine. In 1989 she became the founding publisher of Vintage paperbacks[9][3] “whose stunning success launched a thousand embarrassing moments in editorial conferences throughout Britain” according to The Independent[10]. She continued to edit and publish authors including Edward W Said[2](Culture & Imperialism); Salman Rushdie(the Moor’s Last Sigh)[11][12] and John Pilger[2](A Secret Country).

In 1993 Coady became the publisher[13] of the newly created literary division of Random House UK, and “one of the most powerful women in British publishing"[10]. She left Random House to relaunch Granta Books[14] as a fully independent publishing house publishing in 1997[2].

In 2000 Coady moved to New York to become the publisher of Picador USA[15] an imprint of the Macmillan Group which she turned into a paperback house with bestsellers and award winning authors including Michael Chabon’s Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay; Per Petterson’s Out Stealing Horses, Edmund De Waal’s The Hare with Amber Eyes and Edward St Aubyn’s Patrick Melrose Novels.

She also published Frances Coady books within Henry Holt and Farrar Straus & Giroux including– Naomi Kelin’s The Shock Doctrine; Richard Powers' Generosity and; Andrew Sean Greer’s The Confessions of Max Tivoli. Vintage originals included Deborah Eisenberg's The Collected Stories and Esi Edugyan’s Half Blood Blues[16]. In September 2012 Coady was hired by Scott Rudin and Barry Diller of IAC to found a new publishing house Brightline[17] which became Atavist Books. Atavist Books launched in 2014 with Karen Russell's Sleep Donation[18].

As a literary agent[19] at Aragi, Coady’s authors include- Sharon Olds; Claudia Rankine; Ocean Vuong; Michael Cunningham, and Rebecca Solnit.

Personal Life

She is married to the novelist Peter Carey.

  1. ^ Kellaway, Lucy (July 14, 1993). "Women at the Top, Female progress". The Financial Times.
  2. ^ a b c d "Author Approved Matt Seaton meets Frances Coady the new editorial director of Granta Books". Vogue Profile. January 1997.
  3. ^ a b "A new Vintage Liz Thomson chronicles the birth a new trade paperback imprint". Publishing News. June 1990.
  4. ^ "Change Makers". Publishers Weekly. November 30, 2009.
  5. ^ Who's Who 2019. A & C Black Bloomsbury Publishing plc Oxford University Press. 2019.
  6. ^ a b "The History of Faber: 1980s". Faber & Faber Blog. Retrieved 2019-05-10.
  7. ^ "Top Cape job goes to Coady". Publishing News. November 22, 1987.
  8. ^ "The Powers that Will Be -". The Sunday Times Magazine. November 22, 1987.
  9. ^ O'Kelly, Lisa (September 19, 1990). "A paperback publisher raising its shelf-esteem". The Independent.
  10. ^ a b Durrant, Sabine (February 21, 1994). "POWER & INFLUENCE IN THE ARTS: BOOKS / Contesting the cover charge:". The Independent. Retrieved 2019-05-10. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  11. ^ Elie, Paul. "Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, and Martin Amis Recall Surviving the Satanic Verses Fatwa". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 2019-05-10.
  12. ^ "Looking back at Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses". The Guardian. 2012-09-14. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-05-10.
  13. ^ "New Roles for Callil, Coady at Random House". The Bookseller. April 30, 1993.
  14. ^ Walsh, John (1995-06-17). "A WEEK IN BOOKS". The Independent. Retrieved 2019-05-10. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  15. ^ "Change Makers: Frances Coady". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2019-05-10.
  16. ^ "Esi Edugyan's Publishing Cinderella Story: Man Booker Prize Finalist ..." {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  17. ^ Carr, David. "Media Chiefs Form Venture to E Publish". The new York Times.
  18. ^ Kakutani, Michiko (2014-04-02). "Karen Russell's 'Sleep Donation'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-05-10.
  19. ^ "FRANCES COADY". ARAGI INC. Retrieved 2019-05-10.
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