Ben Sevier
Ben Sevier is President of the Grand Central Publishing Group, a division of Hachette Book Group. Mr. Sevier directs all publishing activities for a collection of twenty imprints across three business lines, including Grand Central Publishing, where he is Publisher, as well as Hachette Nashville and Union Square & Co.
Writers Sevier is proud to have worked with during his three decades in publishing include the New York Times-bestselling novelists David Baldacci, Sandra Brown, Harlan Coben, Patricia Cornwell, Lisa Gardner, Thomas Harris, Callie Hart, Colleen Hoover, Abby Jimenez, Tia Williams, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, Kennedy Ryan, Nicholas Sparks, Jonathan Tropper, Scott Turow, Mo Willems, and Reese Witherspoon. He has also edited and published a broad range of nonfiction including the two-million-copy seller No Easy Day by Navy SEAL Mark Owen, Red Platoon by Medal of Honor recipient Clinton Romesha, Alone at Dawn by Dan Schilling and Lori Chapman Longfritz, and he directed the acquisition and publication of nonfiction books by Nate Bargatze, Sally Field, Flea, Connie Chung, George Stephanopoulos, Tom Segura, Nick Offerman, Drew Barrymore, Brooke Shields, Dr. William Li, Admiral William McRaven, Daniel Levitin, and Sean Carroll, among many others. Prior to Grand Central, Sevier was Vice President and Publisher at Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House, which followed editorial roles at Simon & Schuster, St. Martin’s Press, and HarperCollins Children’s Books.