Lara Heimert Bio Page
Lara Heimert
President and Publisher, Basic Books Group
Phone: 212-364-0669
Email: lara.heimert@hbgusa.com
Lara Heimert joined Basic Books in 2005. Previously, she was publisher of the trade division at Yale University Press. She has published numerous prize-winning and New York Times bestselling titles. Highlights include Edward Baptist’s The Half Has Never Been Told, Eugene Rogan’s The Fall of the Ottomans, Timothy Snyder’s Bloodlands, Leonard Sax’s The Collapse of Parenting, Victor Davis Hanson’s The End of Everything, Neil Price’s Children of Ash and Elm, and Bjorn Lomborg’s False Alarm. A graduate of Princeton University, Lara acquires primarily in the field of history, broadly conceived—from world wars to marginalia, from culinary history to political theory, from diaspora to doodles.
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