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Sean McDonald is Vice President and Executive Editor of Riverhead Books. Penguin Group (USA) is the U.S. affiliate of the Penguin Group.
Sean McDonald has worked in the book publishing world for more than ten years as an editor and designer. In addition to his editorial duties at Riverhead Books, he is also the imprint's Online Creative Director, and will continue to spearhead its website and online marketing efforts.
Prior to joining Riverhead Books in 2003, Mr. McDonald was at Nan A. Talese/Doubleday for four years as Editor and Online Marketing Director, where he acquired and edited James Frey's A Million Little Pieces (#1 New York Times bestseller and current Oprah Book Club selection), Aleksandar Hemon's Nowhere Man (finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award) and The Question of Bruno, Ellen Ullman's The Bug (finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award), and Marc Herman's Searching for El Dorado, among other books, and developed the publishing house's website and electronic newsletter. From 1994 to 1998, he worked at Arcade Publishing, as Editor and Art Director, where he acquired and edited Nuruddin Farah's Blood in the Sun trilogy, Maps, Gifts, and Secrets. | 