Geoff Shandler is a former Editor-in-Chief of Little of Brown and Company and former Editorial Director at HarperCollins, among other positions, acquiring and editing more than one hundred books, including scores of bestsellers and award winners. He has helped launch two successful imprints and advised other publishers and investors about doing the same. Independently, he has edited books published by divisions of Simon and Schuster, Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Hachette Book Group, W.W. Norton, Macmillan, Authors Equity, and Yale University Press. He has worked with a multitude of authors (nonfiction and fiction), journalists, screenwriters, business leaders, political visionaries, scientists, historians, big thinkers, athletes, former spies and soldiers, movie directors and musicians to develop and strengthen their work. Shandler taught at NYU and runs workshops at the Community of Writers summer conferences in California. He has also served as an evaluator for the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Whiting Foundation.