Brian J. Distelberg Bio Page
Brian J. Distelberg
VP, Associate Publisher, Basic Books Group
Phone: 212-364-0655
Email: brian.distelberg@hbgusa.com
Brian J. Distelberg joined Basic Books in 2015 and oversees the editorial direction of the Basic Books, Basic Venture, PublicAffairs, and Seal Press imprints. He acquires and publishes primarily in history for Basic Books, including multiple New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize–winning books. Notable titles include Brad DeLong’s Slouching Towards Utopia, Martha Jones’s Vanguard, Jefferson Cowie’s Freedom’s Dominion, Jacqueline Jones’s No Right to an Honest Living, Peniel Joseph’s The Sword and the Shield, Martyn Rady’s The Habsburgs, Marc David Baer’s The Ottomans, and Myth America, edited by Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer. He has also published selectively in politics, where highlights include Jonathan Metzl’s Dying of Whiteness, Dorothy Roberts’s Torn Apart, and Jonathan Sacks’s Morality. Brian worked previously at Harvard University Press and holds a PhD in US history from Yale University.
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