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Denise Roy, Editorial Director for James Patterson

Denise Roy, Editorial Director for James Patterson

At Simon & Schuster and Penguin Random House, Denise Roy edited and published numerous bestselling nonfiction books that have been adapted for film—including the Academy-Award-winning First Man (starring Ryan Gosling and Claire Foy), The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (starring Julianne Moore, Laura Linney, and Woody Harrelson), and Emmy-nominated Under the Bridge (starring Riley Keough and Lily Gladstone)—as well as three Edgar-Award-winning crime novels: Queenpin by Megan Abbott, plus Bent Road and Let Me Die in His Footsteps, both by Lori Roy.  
 
As Editorial Director of the James Patterson Books publishing program, she edits a wide range of bestselling crime fiction and narrative nonfiction, including Eruption, Billion-Dollar Ransom, The #1 Dad Book, Disrupt Everything, and The Idaho Four: An American Tragedy

Books Denise has edited: