Coffee House Club : Victoria Wilson & Jane Friedman

Date
Jan 21, 2025 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Location
skylight gallery
Admission
Open to Coffee House, Salmagundi members, and their guests
RSVP required
Program is FREE to attend
For any questions, please email Julian Tepper at coffeehouseclub@hotmail.com or call (917) 519-2594.

About the Event

Legendary editors Victoria Wilson and Jane Friedman will be visiting the Coffee House Club to speak about their decades at the highest echelons of publishing. Salmagundi members are welcome to join!

Hungry?

Ticketed attendees are welcome to stay for dinner by indicating so in their Eventbrite RSVP.

There will be an a la carte menu to choose from. On the day of the event, you can pay for your meal with a card or your membership account (no cash).

About the Speakers

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Victoria Wilson

As Vice President, Executive Editor at Alfred A. Knopf, Wilson has worked with many writers, among them, Walter Abish, Alice Adams, Diane Ravitch, Laurel Ulrich, Susan Cheever, Eve Babtiz, Mary Beth Norton, Amy Klobuchar, Anne Somerset, Laurie Colwin, Peter Beard, Lauren Bacall, Diane Johnson, Mary Ellen Mark, William Gass, Brenda Wineapple, Peter Bogdanovich, Lorrie Moore, Anne Rice, Arthur Laurents, Sarah Chayes, Billy Dee Williams, Philippe Sands, Jill Ciment, George Stevens, Sapphire, Christopher Plummer, Helen Simpson, Meryle Secrest, Suzanne Simard, Ruth Gruber, Wendy Wasserstein, Jane Alexander, Rose Styron, Jacques d’Amboise, Amy McGrath and Erin Brockovitch. After five decades at Knopf (a run almost as long as that of Alfred Knopf himself who was at the company he founded for 57 years, and Bob Gottlieb, her boss and mentor), Wilson has left to write full time and act as a consulting editor at Knopf. Her acclaimed biography, A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True 1907-1940, was published by Simon & Schuster. She is at work on the concluding volume of the Stanwyck biography.

Wilson has served on the board of PEN, Poets & Writers, was Vice President of the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, and was appointed by President Clinton to the US Commission on Civil Rights.

A woman with a side part rests her chin on her hand.
Jane Friedman

As co-Founder of Open Road Media and the one-time Presdient and CEO of Harper Collins, Friedman has been a leader in the world’s English-language publishing industry over the past thirty years. Friedman is credited with inventing the author’s tour, now a staple of the industry.Friedman founded and became president of the first audio books division of a trade publisher.

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