Frances Coady
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]
Early life
Born in London, Frances Coady has degrees from the University of Sussex and the University of Essex.[8]
Career
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 Philips,[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 W Said(Culture & 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 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 Kelin’s The Shock Doctrine;[32][33] Richard Powers' Generosity[34] and; Andrew Sean Greer’s The Confessions of Max Tivoli.[35] Vintage originals included Deborah Eisenberg's The Collected Stories[36] and Esi Edugyan’s Half Blood Blues.[37] In September 2012 Coady was hired by 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]
Personal life
She is married to the novelist Peter Carey.[42]
References
- Kellaway, Lucy (July 14, 1993). "Women at the Top, Female progress". The Financial Times.
- "Author Approved Matt Seaton meets Frances Coady the new editorial director of Granta Books". Vogue Profile. January 1997.
- "A new Vintage Liz Thomson chronicles the birth a new trade paperback imprint". Publishing News. June 1990.
- Who, Who's (2018-01-25). Who's who 2018 : an annual biographical dictionary (One hundred and seventieth year of issue ed.). [London]. ISBN 9781472935014. OCLC 1014181885.
- Cassell & the Publishers Association directory of publishing, 1990. Cassell Ltd. (Fifteenth ed.). London: Cassell. 1989. ISBN 978-0304318872. OCLC 21220244.CS1 maint: others (link)
- "Change Makers". Publishers Weekly. November 30, 2009.
- "FRANCES COADY". ARAGI INC. Retrieved 2019-05-20.
- Who's Who 2019. A & C Black Bloomsbury Publishing plc Oxford University Press. 2019.
- "The History of Faber: 1980s". Faber & Faber Blog. Retrieved 2019-05-10.
- Who, Who's (2018-01-25). Who's who 2018 : an annual biographical dictionary (One hundred and seventieth year of issue ed.). [London]. ISBN 9781472935014. OCLC 1014181885.
- Faber, Toby (2019-04-30). Faber & Faber: The Untold Story of a Great Publishing House. Faber & Faber. ISBN 9780571339068.
- Phillips, Caryl (2017-09-13). The European Tribe. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 9780525562801.
- "Top Cape job goes to Coady". Publishing News. November 22, 1987.
- "The Powers that Will Be -". The Sunday Times Magazine. November 22, 1987.
- O'Kelly, Lisa (September 19, 1990). "A paperback publisher raising its shelf-esteem". The Independent.
- ILMP 1990 : International literary market place ; 25th anniversary. R.R. Bowker Company. New York: R.R. Bowker Co. 1989. ISBN 978-0835226189. OCLC 20928914.CS1 maint: others (link)
- Durrant, Sabine (February 21, 1994). "POWER & INFLUENCE IN THE ARTS: BOOKS / Contesting the cover charge". The Independent. Retrieved 2019-05-10.
- "Full text of "Culture And Imperialism By Edward W. Said"". archive.org. Retrieved 2019-05-20.
- Elie, Paul. "Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, and Martin Amis Recall Surviving the Satanic Verses Fatwa". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 2019-05-10.
- "Looking back at Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses". The Guardian. 2012-09-14. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-05-10.
- McDonald, Russell (2016). "Harnessing the Currents of Textual Fluidity: Salman Rushdie's Making of East, West". Textual Cultures. 10 (2): 76–106. doi:10.14434/textual.v10i2.19517. ISSN 1559-2936. JSTOR 26514868.
- Pilger, John (2010-09-02). Distant Voices. Random House. ISBN 9781407086378.
- "New Roles for Callil, Coady at Random House". The Bookseller. April 30, 1993.
- Walsh, John (1995-06-17). "A WEEK IN BOOKS". The Independent. Retrieved 2019-05-10.
- "About Granta Books". Granta Books. Retrieved 2019-05-20.
- "Change Makers: Frances Coady". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2019-05-10.
- Chabon, Michael (2000). The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. Macmillan. ISBN 9780312282998.
- Neal. "World Voices: Norway's Per Petterson Relaxes".
- "Publishers Marketplace: Log In". www.publishersmarketplace.com. Retrieved 2019-05-20.
- PT Editors. "People Round-Up, Early June 2015".
- "Change Makers: Frances Coady". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2019-05-20.
- "Naomi Klein, Friedman Fighter | Naomi Klein". www.naomiklein.org. Retrieved 2019-05-20.
- Klein, Naomi (2010-04-01). The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Henry Holt and Company. ISBN 9781429919487.
- McInerney, Jay (2009-10-01). "Book Review | 'Generosity: An Enhancement,' by Richard Powers". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-05-20.
- "Secrets that live in the Sunset". Los Angeles Times. 2008-05-11. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 2019-05-20.
- "Deborah Eisenberg: City Life In The Smallest Spaces". NPR.org. Retrieved 2019-05-20.
- "Esi Edugyan's Publishing Cinderella Story: Man Booker Prize Finalist ..."
- Carr, David. "Media Chiefs Form Venture to E Publish". The New York Times.
- "One Year Later, Coady's Atavist Books Set to Launch". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2019-05-20.
- Kakutani, Michiko (2014-04-02). "Karen Russell's 'Sleep Donation'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-05-10.
- "FRANCES COADY". ARAGI INC. Retrieved 2019-05-10.
- Brockes, Emma (2012-03-16). "Peter Carey: making it up as he goes along". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-05-20.