Peter Ginna has worked as a book editor since 1982, beginning at Persea Books, St. Martin’s Press, and Crown Publishers. At Crown he published award-winning fiction and nonfiction, editing authors ranging from the historian Thomas Buell to Colin Dexter (creator of the bestselling Inspector Morse mysteries), Audrey Meadows, and Larry King. He edited Suze Orman’s #1 bestseller The Nine Steps to Financial Freedom.

Before founding Bloomsbury Press, Ginna spent several years as editorial director for trade books at Oxford University Press, where he published the Pulitzer Prize–winning works of history Washington’s Crossing by David Hackett Fischer and Polio: An American Story by David Oshinsky, and the Bancroft Prize–winning In Pursuit of Equity by Alice Kessler-Harris. He also edited the New York Times bestsellers Crossroads of Freedom by James M. McPherson and Six Days of War by Michael B.Oren.

Other authors Peter Ginna has worked with include Raymond Arsenault, Colin Calloway, David Cannadine, James Cobb, Norman Davies, Sarah Deutsch, Robert and Ellen Kaplan, Edward T. Linenthal, Lauro Martines, Caroline Murphy, James T. Patterson, Robert Utley, Jennifer Weber, and Donald Worster.

You can visit Peter’s blog about books and publishing at doctorsyntax.net. He also comments occasionally at the Bloomsbury Press Twitter feed, where you can find news of Bloomsbury Press titles and links to other articles of current interest.