Lara Heimert

SVP, Publisher, the Basic Books Group (Basic, Seal, PublicAffairs & Bold Type)

Phone: 212-364-0669

Email: lara.heimert@hbgusa.com

Twitter: @laraheimert

Lara Heimert joined Basic Books in 2005. Previously, she was publisher of the trade division at Yale University Press. She has published numerous prize-winning and New York Times bestselling titles. Highlights include Edward Baptist’s The Half Has Never Been Told, Eugene Rogan’s The Fall of the Ottomans, Timothy Snyder’s Bloodlands, Bee Wilson’s Consider the Fork, Victor Davis Hanson’s The Dying Citizen, Neil Price’s Children of Ash and Elm, and Jason Riley’s Maverick. A graduate of Princeton University, Lara acquires primarily in the field of history, broadly conceived—from world wars to marginalia, from culinary history to political theory, from diaspora to doodles.

Brian J. Distelberg

VP, Editor in Chief

Phone: 212-364-0655

Email: brian.distelberg@hbgusa.com

Brian J. Distelberg joined Basic Books in 2015 and acquires primarily in history. Books he has edited and published include Brad DeLong’s Slouching Towards Utopia, Peniel Joseph’s The Third Reconstruction, Martha Jones’s Vanguard, Martyn Rady’s The Habsburgs, Marc David Baer’s The Ottomans, Walter Johnson’s The Broken Heart of America, and Alice Baumgartner’s South to Freedom. He also publishes a select number of books in politics; highlights include Jonathan Metzl’s Dying of Whiteness and Jonathan Sacks’s Morality. Brian worked previously at Harvard University Press and holds a PhD in US history from Yale University.

Thomas Kelleher

VP & Editorial Director

Phone: 212-364-0657

Email: thomas.kelleher@hbgusa.com

Thomas Kelleher joined Basic Books in 2009, and publishes predominantly in science, mathematics, and economics. He has published Eric Topol, Sherry Turkle, Edward Frenkel, Thor Hanson, Eugenia Cheng, and Leonard Susskind, among many others. Recent highlights include Azra Raza’s The First Cell, Lucy Cooke’s Bitch, William MacAskill’s What We Owe the Future, Adam Becker’s What Is Real?, Rob Dunn’s A Natural History of the Future, and Eugenia Cheng’s Is Math Real?. He is also responsible for the publishing program surrounding The Feynman Lectures on Physics.

Janice Audet

Executive Editor

Phone: 212-364-0650

Email: janice.audet@hbgusa.com

Janice Audet joined Basic Books in 2023 and acquires primarily in the biological and life sciences. Before joining Basic, she was an executive editor for science at Harvard University Press, where she acquired, edited, and published books by Christina Maslach and Michael Leiter, Martin Rees, Govert Schilling, Cecilia Heyes, and Beronda Montgomery.

Brandon Proia

Executive Editor

Phone: 212-364-0632

Email: brandon.proia@hbgusa.com

Brandon Proia joined Basic Books in 2023 and acquires primarily in history. Before joining Basic, he was an executive editor of history at UNC Press, where he published books including Keeanga Taylor’s Race for Profit, Johanna Fernandez’s The Young Lords, and Kelly Hernandez’s City of Inmates. He has also worked as an editor at PublicAffairs, where he published Radley Balko’s Rise of the Warrior Cop.

Emily Taber

Executive Editor

Phone: (212) 364-0656

Email: emily.taber@hbgusa.com

Emily Taber joined Basic Books and Seal Press in 2022. She acquires primarily in economics and business, with a particular interest in economic and business history, behavioral economics, public policy, and workplace inclusion. Previously, she was the economics, finance, and business editor at the MIT Press, where she published books by Ron Adner, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Cass Sunstein, and Ruchika Tulshyan.