Julie Grau
New Hire at Spiegel and Grau
Spiegel & Grau has hired Tina Pohlman from Harcourt and named her senior editor for hardcovers and editorial director for paperbacks, it was announced today. At Harcourt, which is in the middle of a messy merger with Houghton Mifflin that has left several high-level people without jobs, Ms. Pohlman was editorial director of the paperback imprint Harvest Books. read more »
Lit Ladies Spiegel and Grau Launch List at Doubleday
“I would say that both of us can do pretty much anything.”
Cindy Spiegel was on the top floor of the Random House building at 56th and Broadway sitting at a conference table next to Julie Grau, her friend and longtime partner in the book business. Both were dressed in black: Ms. Spiegel, 47, in some kind of charming, puffy skirt, and Ms. Grau, 44, in leather boots and a sleek, low-cut dress. They were discussing what kinds of books they are good at publishing, and what kinds of books they’ll be looking for as they continue furiously acquiring titles for Spiegel & Grau, the publishing company the two of them started two and a half years ago as a division of Random House’s Doubleday group after abruptly leaving their longtime home at the Penguin Group’s Riverhead imprint. read more »
