Nan A. Talese

Nan Talese at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival
Born	United States
Occupation	Writer, editor, publisher
Spouse	Gay Talese

Nan Talese (née Ahern) is an American editor and a veteran of the New York publishing industry.^[1][2]

Career

Talese is Senior Vice President of Doubleday and the Publisher and Editorial Director of Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. At Random House and earlier at Simon & Schuster and Houghton Mifflin, she has had editorial relationships with Pat Conroy, Margaret Atwood, Ian McEwan, Barry Unsworth, Valerie Martin, and Thomas Keneally. Her imprint also published James Frey's discredited memoir A Million Little Pieces.^[1]

Personal life

Talese has been married for over 50 years to writer Gay Talese, a marriage that is documented in an novel by her husband.^[3][4] They have two daughters.^[5]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Oprah vs. James Frey: The Sequel". TIME. 30 July 2007. http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1648140,00.html. Retrieved 11 September 2009. 
2. ^ Celia McGee (2010-12-1). "Once an Editor, Now the Subject". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/02/fashion/02JACKIE.html?pagewanted=all. Retrieved 2012-03-25. 
3. ^ "A Nonfiction Marriage". New York. 26 April 2009. http://nymag.com/arts/books/profiles/56289/. Retrieved 11 September 2009. 
4. ^ "Talese's memoir details his writing travails". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. 16 May 2006. http://www.seattlepi.com/books/270279_talese16.html. Retrieved 11 September 2009. 
5. ^ Jonathan Van Meter (2009-05-04). "A Nonfiction Marriage". New York Magazine. http://nymag.com/arts/books/profiles/56289/index2.html. Retrieved 2012-03-25. 

External links

• Random House bio
• Nan A. Talese at the Internet Movie Database

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