André Schiffrin

In close to fifty years as an editor, first at Pantheon Books and then as the founding director of The New Press, André Schiffrin was responsible for a great many books on World War II, including Art Speigelman’s Maus and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Embracing Defeat. He is the author of several books himself, among them The Business of Books and A Political Education. He lives in New York City.