2010 Presenters
Helene Atwan
For more than fifteen years, Helene Atwan has been director of Beacon Press, a Boston-based independent publisher of fiction and non-fiction since 1854. She began her career in publishing at Random House in 1976, after receiving a masters degree in English from the University of Virginia and has worked at Alfred A. Knopf, Viking Press; Farrar, Straus and Giroux; and Simon and Schuster. Her acquisitions at Beacon include Gayl Jones’s The Healing, a National Book Award Finalist, Wendy Kaminer’s Worst Instincts, Danielle Ofri’s Singular Intimacies, Rashid Khalidi’s Resurrecting Empire and The Iron Cage, Meredith Hall’s Without A Map, as well as books by journalists Mitchell Zuckoff, Philip Winslow, Mark Hyman, and Beth Whitehouse, and ten volumes of poetry by Pulitzer-prize winner Mary Oliver.
Atwan served for eight years on the board of PEN-New England and is the Administrator of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award.
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Beacon Press, the independent publishing house in which Atwan serves as Director
The Hemingway Foundation/ PEN Award, for which Atwan serves as Administrator
Atwan's posts on Beacon Broadside, a project of Beacon Press