Viking Books
Pam Dorman Is Back At Viking Books—And at Square One
Viking’s Pam Dorman.
When Pam Dorman decided this past May to return to Viking Books—where she’d been an editor for 19 years—she had not been gone for very long. It was just two and a half years ago, in January 2006, when she announced she would be leaving to start her own boutique imprint at Hyperion.
By the time of the switch, Ms. Dorman had established herself at Viking as an editor with a rare intuition for spotting debut novels of a certain character that could sell millions of copies. Bridget Jones’s Diary was hers. Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees, too. Also Kim Edwards’ The Memory Keeper’s Daughter and Jacquelyn Mitchard’s The Deep End of the Ocean. read more »
