Kate Medina to Retire from Random House
After nearly four decades at Random House, Kate Medina will retire from her position as EVP, associate publisher, and executive editorial director at the end of June.
Medina began her career in publishing at Doubleday, where she worked on the manuscript of Peter Benchley’s debut novel, Jaws, and acquired and edited Tennessee Williams’s Memoirs. During her time at Random House, she edited and worked with such authors as Azam Ahmed, Afia Atakora, Amy Bloom, Emma Cline, Alan Drew, Jane Fonda, John Irving, Yiyun Li, Anna Quindlen, Gloria Steinem, and Evan Thomas, and others.
“Since 1988 I have had a single book editor,” said Anna Quindlen. “All these years later, Kate speaks fluent Quindlen, which makes all the difference when she is tackling my first drafts. More important, she has always made me feel encouraged, supported, and, yes—we writers being fragile creatures—loved.”
Jon Meacham, who published eight books with Medina, added: “Kate embodies editorial excellence. Henry James might well have had Kate in mind when he wrote that we should all strive to be someone on whom nothing is lost.”
