Sarah Crichton

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Sarah Crichton

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Nationality| American
Alma mater| Harvard College
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* Writer
* Editor
* Publisher

Sarah Crichton is an American writer, editor and publisher. She served as publisher at Little, Brown and as publisher of her eponymous imprint, Sarah Crichton Books at Farrar, Straus & Giroux, among other positions.

## Contents

* 1 Biography
* 2 Career
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Biography[edit]

Sarah Crichton is the daughter of novelist Robert Crichton and documentary producer Judy Crichton.[1][2] Her grandfather was the writer and editor Kyle Crichton.[3] Sarah Crichton grew up in New York City where she attended The Dalton School.[4] She graduated from Harvard College where she wrote for The Harvard Crimson[5][6]

## Career[edit]

After college, Crichton became a freelance writer and then an articles editor at Seventeen magazine where she was named Editor in 1987.[3] Crichton then became arts editor at Newsweek in 1988, and later was named a managing editor there.[7]

Crichton left Newsweek in 1996 to become publisher of the Adult Trade unit at Little, Brown. She was the first woman in that position in the history of the publishing house.[8][3] Among the books Crichton published at Little, Brown are Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point and George Stephanopoulos's All Too Human. Crichton left Little, Brown in January 2001.[9]

Crichton then served as a freelance editor for Madeleine Albright's memoir, Madam Secretary: A Memoir which was published in 2003.[10]

Following her work on the Albright memoir, Sarah Crichton co-wrote Daniel Liebeskind's memoir, Breaking Ground, published in 2004, and worked with Joe Lieberman and Hadassah Lieberman on their memoir of the 2000 presidential campaign, An Amazing Adventure.[11][12][13][14]

Crichton co-wrote the bestselling A Mighty Heart with Mariane Pearl about the murder of Pearl's husband, journalist Daniel Pearl, and Pearl's attempt to discover who was behind his assassination.[15]

In June 2004, Farrar, Straus & Giroux announced that Crichton would become head of Sarah Crichton Books, an imprint at the publishing house.[16] Sarah Crichton Books published authors such as Cathleen Schine, David Finkel, Matthew Quick, John Leland, Brigid Schulte, and Ishmael Beah whose memoir of his life as a child soldier in Sierra Leone, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, became an international bestseller.[17]

In 2016, Sarah Crichton contributed an essay to the anthology The Bitch is Back which The New York Times described as "a tour de force of comedy and poignancy" about "the travails of dating again at almost 60."[18]

Sarah Crichton left Farrar, Straus & Giroux in December 2019 and was appointed editor-in-chief of adult trade books at Henry Holt and Company in April 2020. [19] Crichton stepped down from the editor-in-chief position in 2023 to serve as editor-in-large at Holt, continuing to work with authors such as Cathleen Schine and Michael Wolff.[20]

## References[edit]

1. ↑ Lambert, Bruce (March 24, 1993). "Robert Crichton, 68, Writer, Dies; His Best Sellers Became Hit Films". The New York Times - via NYTimes.com.
2. ↑ Hevesi, Dennis (October 17, 2007). "Judy Crichton, Producer of 'American Experience', Dies at 77". The New York Times - via NYTimes.com.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Women Get the Word Out at Top Book Houses". Christian Science Monitor.
4. ↑ Nast, Condé (October 7, 2019). "The Untold Tale of Young William Barr Among the Manhattan Liberals". Vanity Fair.
5. ↑ "Sarah Crichton | Writer Page | The Harvard Crimson". www.thecrimson.com.
6. ↑ "sarah crichton and patty marx talk about patty marx becoming the first woman on the Harvard Lampoon".
7. ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1990/03/28/critics-hit-newsweeks-bum-rap/b44b6617-186d-47e4-908c-7482ee512b22/
8. ↑ Tabor, Mary B. W. (January 12, 1996). "THE MEDIA BUSINESS;Senior Newsweek Editor to Head Little, Brown Adult Trade Unit". The New York Times - via NYTimes.com.
9. ↑ Street Journal, Matthew RoseStaff Reporter of The Wall (January 23, 2001). "Sarah Crichton of Little, Brown Is Eased Out of Post as Publisher". Wall Street Journal - via www.wsj.com.
10. ↑ Baker, John F. "Hot Deals". PublishersWeekly.com.
11. ↑ Bing, Jonathan (May 31, 2001). "S&S pays $100K for Liebermans' book".
12. ↑ Breaking Ground. Riverhead Books. 2004. ISBN 9781573222921.
13. ↑ Lieberman, Joseph I.; Lieberman, Hadassah (August 24, 2007). An Amazing Adventure. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781416575184 - via www.simonandschuster.com.
14. ↑ PEARMAN, REVIEWED BY HUGH (September 21, 2023). "Memoir: Breaking Ground by Daniel Libeskind with Sarah Crichton" - via www.thetimes.co.uk.
15. ↑ Pearl, Mariane (October 12, 2004). A Mighty Heart. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9780743262378 - via www.simonandschuster.com.
16. ↑ Zeitchik, Steven. "Crichton Gets Imprint at FSG". PublishersWeekly.com.
17. ↑ "Sarah Crichton". Henry Holt & Company. September 29, 2019.
18. ↑ Gottlieb, Lori (October 5, 2016). "'The Bitch in the House' Has a Sequel: 'The Bitch Is Back'". The New York Times - via NYTimes.com.
19. ↑ Maher, John. "Crichton to Leave FSG at End of Year". PublishersWeekly.com.
20. ↑ Milliot, Jim. "Sarah Crichton Steps Down as Editor-in-Chief of Henry Holt". PublishersWeekly.com.

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