Colin Harrison, the well-known Harper's deputy editor and author of several novels, will join Scribner as vice-president and senior editor, editing both fiction and narrative nonfiction. Harrison is the latest editor to follow in the footsteps of such magazine editors as Daniel Menaker and take a senior position in book publishing. Harrison will report to Scribner v-p and editor-in-chief Nan Graham.
Harrison will start his new position on November 19, a few days after he chairs the National Book Award fiction committee. The National Book Foundation shies away from putting book editors on its panels, limiting them mostly to critics and authors. But because of the start date, an NBF spokesperson says he'll remain in that spot, where he'll get a chance to help determine whether FSG, which published Harrison's last book, Afterburn, will win an award for Jonathan Franzen, who first equivocated about the state of the social novel in Harper's.
