The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression has two new board members. Roberta Rubin, owner of The Book Stall at Chestnut Court in Winnetka, Ill., and Patricia Johnson, executive v-p and editorial director of Knopf, Pantheon and Schocken Books, have just been elected to three-year terms.
Rubin bought the Chestnut Court Book Shop in Winnetka, a Chicago suburb, in 1986, and renamed it The Book Stall at Chestnut Court. The store was chosen as one of the Top 10 Outstanding Bookstores by USA Today in 1997 and was named as one of the top ten bookstores in the Chicago area by the Chicago Tribune in 2007. Johnson started her career as a bookseller and then became manager of national accounts at Bantam Books and, two years later, director of Doubleday. In 1992, she was named v-p and publisher at Random House Audio and publisher of Random House Large Print the following year. She became v-p and associate publisher at Knopf in 1996.
Bonnie Ammer, formerly of Random House; and Betsy Burton of The King’s English Bookshop in Salt Lake City are stepping down from the board.
