Lisa Kaufman

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."


 * Marketing Director and Senior Editor, PublicAffairs