Michael Pietsch is Executive Vice President and Publisher of Little, Brown and Company, and he acquires literary novels, thrillers, biography, and narrative non-fiction. Some of the writers he has had the pleasure of working with: Martin Amis, Michael Connelly, R. Crumb, John Feinstein, Janet Fitch, Peter Guralnick, Mark Leyner, Rick Moody, Walter Mosley, James Patterson, George Pelecanos, Alice Sebold, David Sedaris, Anita Shreve, Nick Tosches, David Foster Wallace, and Stephen Wright. Prior to joining Little, Brown in 1991, Michael worked at Harmony Books and before that at Scribner, where he edited Ernest Hemingway’s posthumous memoir The Dangerous Summer.
Little, Brown and Company was founded in 1837 and for close to two centuries has published fiction and nonfiction by many of America's finest writers. Early lists featured Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, Emily Dickinson's poetry, and Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, all of which are still available today. In 1993 Little, Brown created a new trade paperback imprint, Back Bay Books, to focus on long-term publication of the company's best fiction and nonfiction and to publish original trade paperbacks. Little, Brown is also the home of Bulfinch Press, a leading publisher of art and photography books. Bestselling novelists on our Little, Brown hardcover and Back Bay paperback lists include J. D. Salinger, James Patterson, Herman Wouk, Alice Sebold, Anita Shreve, Walter Mosley, Janet Fitch, John le Carre, Jimmy Buffett, Pete Hamill, David Foster Wallace, and Michael Connelly. In nonfiction, Little, Brown's bestselling and prizewinning works include such distinguished writers as Nelson Mandela, James Bradley, William Manchester, George Stephanopoulos, Gloria Steinem, the Dalai Lama, David Sedaris, John Feinstein, Malcolm Gladwell, and the cartoonist R. Crumb. Bulfinch publishes the distinguished photography of Ansel Adams, Sally Mann, Irving Penn, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Joyce Tenneson, Howard Schatz and Abelardo Morell.