John Mitchinson
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Non-fiction editorial director at Picador, but who cut her teeth as editorial assistant to Peter Carson, who was then editor-in-chief of Penguin, where she says she learned more in two years than she had in three at university or since.
After Penguin, she became a commissioning editor at Transworld, then joined Macmillan as non-fiction editorial director in 1994.
So have you done 25 years?
In many different buildings.
Her list focuses on serious non-fiction.
Mostly history and historical biography with occasional forays into narrative non-fiction and memoirs.
The authors she has worked with include, in no particular order, Adam Hochschild,
Michael Burley, Robert Service, David Olisoga, Robert Saviano, John Krakauer, Jane Glover, Judith Mackrell and Catherine Nixie.
And most recently, she's worked with David Knott, the trauma surgeon whose book War Doctor is A, a good deed in a naughty world and B, seems to be doing quite well.
And also joining us, we're very pleased to welcome back Lucy Scholes.
Pleased to be back.
We're delighted to welcome you back to Backlisted.
Lucy was the guest on one of our earliest and most important episodes when she introduced us to the joys of Barbara Cummings.
And then she returned for one of our middle and most important episodes where we all agreed with one another about Anita Bruckner.
She's about to do the treble.
Lucy writes about books, film and art for the Financial Times, the New York Review Daily, the New York Times Book Review and Granta, among other publications.