Before Mitzi Angel became the new head of FSG imprint Faber & Faber here in New York, a job she started only a few weeks ago, she lived in London with her boyfriend and worked as an editor at a small literary publishing house founded during the mid-1980s called 4th Estate. It was an enormously successful operation for an independent, and it was not long after Ms. Angel joined up that it merged with HarperCollins UK. Because so many people quit or were laid off in the aftermath of the transition, she rose quickly and was soon known as an editor with an uncommon talent for finding new writers.  read more »

It was one year ago that Farrar, Straus & Giroux publisher Jonathan Galassi first started trying to convince Mitzi Angel, the editorial director at a small literary imprint of HarperCollins UK, to move to America and come work for him. “Mitzi just walked into my office one day and I thought, ‘Wow, I want this person to work here,” Mr. Galassi said. “I felt that the minute I met her. I’ve been chasing her ever since.”  read more »