Doug Pepper, who has held editorial positions in the U.S. and Canada, has been named president and publisher of McClelland & Stewart. Pepper will join M&S May 31, succeeding Douglas Gibson, who will launch his own imprint at the company, Douglas Gibson Books. Ellen Seligman will remain a v-p and publisher of M&S's fiction list.
Pepper joined Random House Canada in 1987 and moved to New York in 1998 to become v-p and a senior editor at Crown Publishing. Among the authors he worked with at Crown were Jimmy Breslin, Jonathan Kozol and Ann Coulter; at Random Canada he acquired Carol Shields's The Stone Diaries and worked with such authors as Naomi Wolf and Bruce McCall.
