Julia Cheiffetz

Julia Cheiffetz (born September 18, 1978) is an Executive Editor at HarperCollins, a division of News Corporation. She has published Harold Bloom, Stanley Fish, Greg Graffin, Erica Jong, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, Stephen Marche, Cass Sunstein, Jessica Valenti, and Sam Wasson, whose breakout bestseller Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. was widely acclaimed.^[1] In 2008 Cheiffetz acquired Devil in the Grove by Gilbert King which won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction and was called "a richly detailed chronicle of racial injustice" by the Pulitzer committee.^[2] The film adaptation is currently in development. In 2014 Cheiffetz commissioned and edited the New York Times best-selling book Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik. From 2011 to 2014 Cheiffetz was the Editorial Director of Amazon Publishing.^[3] At Amazon, Cheiffetz led the New York City-based adult trade publishing team under Larry Kirshbaum, publishing Deepak Chopra, Timothy Ferriss, and Penny Marshall. Cheiffetz resigned from Amazon in July 2013, and shortly after her departure other editors left the company.^[4] She later wrote about her experience in a post on Medium that went viral and helped lead to changes in Amazon's parental leave policies.^[5] Cheiffetz spent the first six years of her publishing careeer at Random House where she published the controversial anthology This Is Not Chick Lit and the debut works of many writers including Karen Abbott and Ed Park.^[6] She is on the Board of Directors of the Lower East Side Girls Club.^[7]

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