Alex Littlefield, Executive Editor

Alex Littlefield, Editorial Director, Nonfiction for Little, Brown

Alex Littlefield is Editorial Director, Nonfiction for Little, Brown, where he acquires and publishes a wide range of narrative and idea-driven nonfiction, primarily in the categories of history, biography, politics, current affairs, and science; his list also includes select music, memoir, and true crime. He is on the lookout for authors with fresh perspectives and deep expertise in their subject areas, and for books with an edge and with a mission: unique, well-crafted stories braided with bold arguments and big ideas. He has worked with Harvard Kennedy School founding dean Graham Allison, Nobel Prize–winning biochemist Jennifer Doudna, U.S. Congressman Jim Clyburn, Grammy Award–winning music writer Peter Guralnick, and pioneering neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett, along with a range of New York Times bestselling authors including Fiona Hill, Marie Yovanovitch, Peter Strzok, Neal Katyal, Eric Lichtblau, Maureen Callahan, James Risen, Wesley Lowery, Jeff Goodell, Adam Hochschild, Mike Duncan, Rutger Bregman, David Treuer, Avi Loeb, Eric Schmidt, Steve Strogatz, Eliezer Yudkowsky, and Randall Munroe. Before joining Little, Brown in 2022, he spent sixteen years in the editorial departments of HarperCollins’s Mariner Books imprint (formerly Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), Basic Books, and Grove/Atlantic.