Bob Bender, Vice President and Executive Editor

Bob Bender acquires a wide range of nonfiction, including biography and autobiography, history, current events, popular science, popular culture (primarily film and music), and narrative nonfiction with a distinctive voice. Authors Bob has published include: Muhammad Ali, Marie Arana, Peter Biskind, David Blight, Harold Bloom, Stephen Breyer, James Cramer, Miles Davis, Wade Davis, Jonathan Eig, Scott Eyman, David Hackett Fischer, John Gierach, Jeff Guinn, Chris Hedges, David Cay Johnston, John Kerry, Charles Leerhsen, Reeve Lindbergh, Peter Lynch, David McCullough, Pauline Maier, David Maraniss, Donald Miller, Robert Putnam, David Quammen, Gilda Radner, James Shapiro, Jean Edward Smith, Barry Strauss, John Thorn, Michael Waldman and E. O. Wilson.