Paul Whitlatch

Paul Whitlatch, Executive Editor, joined Crown, a division of Penguin Random House, in 2019 after previous positions at Hachette, Scribner, and Norton. He acquires and edits books for the Crown and Currency lists, with a focus on adventurous narrative nonfiction, current events, popular history, business journalism, and thought leaders in business and technology. Bestsellers published by Whitlatch include Code Girls by Liza Mundy, Billion Dollar Whale by Tom Wright and Bradley Hope, The Precipice by Toby Ord, A Message from Ukraine by Volodymyr Zelensky, and The Cult of We by Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell. His current authors at Crown and Currency include Liza Mundy, Jimmy Wales, Mustafa Suleyman, Kai-Fu Lee, Andy Dunn, Zeke Faux, Bradley Hope, Liz Hoffman, Alexis Coe, Marshall Goldsmith, and Gary Stevenson.

Great stories that explain our world; working outside in my yard; hiking; old houses; a steady diet of new experiences.

Small museums are better than big museums.

Fly-fishing.