Frances Coady Explained

Birth Place:London, England
Education:University of Sussex
University of Essex
Website:https://aragi.net/agents/frances-coady/

Frances Coady is a veteran British publisher.[1] [2] who started Vintage paperbacks[3] [4] [5] in the UK before moving to New York as the publisher of Picador,[6] where she is now a literary agent at the Aragi agency.[7]

Early life

Born in London, Frances Coady has degrees from the University of Sussex and the University of Essex.[8]

Career

Coady began her publishing career in 1982 in London at Faber & Faber,[9] [10] where she published Self-Help by Lorrie Moore,[11] The Final Passage and The European Tribe by Caryl Phillips,[12] and Edward Said's The World, the Text, and the Critic and After the Last Sky. In 1987, she became editorial director of Jonathan Cape[13] and was featured in "The Powers That Will Be – We Choose the People Who Will Run Britain In the Nineties"[14] in The Sunday Times Magazine. In 1989, she became the founding publisher of Vintage paperbacks[15] [16] "whose stunning success launched a thousand embarrassing moments in editorial conferences throughout Britain", according to The Independent.[17] She continued to edit and publish authors including Edward Said (Culture and Imperialism);[18] Salman Rushdie (The Moor's Last Sigh)[19] [20] [21] and John Pilger[22] (A Secret Country).

In 1993, Coady became the publisher[23] of the newly created literary division of Random House UK, and "one of the most powerful women in British publishing". She left Random House to relaunch Granta Books[24] as a fully independent publishing house publishing in 1997.[25]

In 2000, Coady moved to New York to become the publisher of Picador USA,[26] an imprint of the Macmillan Group, which she turned into a paperback house with bestsellers and award-winning authors including Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay;[27] Per Petterson's Out Stealing Horses,[28] Edmund De Waal's The Hare with Amber Eyes[29] and Edward St Aubyn's Patrick Melrose Novels.[30]

She also published Frances Coady Books within Henry Holt and Farrar Straus & Giroux,[31] including Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine;[32] [33] Richard Powers' Generosity[34] and; Andrew Sean Greer's The Confessions of Max Tivoli.[35] Vintage originals included The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg[36] and Esi Edugyan's Half-Blood Blues.[37] In September 2012, Coady joined Scott Rudin and Barry Diller of IAC to found a new publishing house, Brightline,[38] which became Atavist Books.[39] Atavist Books launched in 2014 with Karen Russell's Sleep Donation[40]

As a literary agent at Aragi, Coady's authors include: Sharon Olds; Claudia Rankine; Ocean Vuong; Michael Cunningham, and Rebecca Solnit.[41]

Awards and distinctions

Coady is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Personal life

Coady is married to the novelist Peter Carey.[42]

Notes and References

  1. Kellaway. Lucy. July 14, 1993. Women at the Top, Female progress. The Financial Times.
  2. January 1997. Author Approved Matt Seaton meets Frances Coady the new editorial director of Granta Books. Vogue Profile.
  3. June 1990. A new Vintage Liz Thomson chronicles the birth a new trade paperback imprint. Publishing News.
  4. Book: Who's who 2018 : an annual biographical dictionary.. 9781472935014. One hundred and seventieth year of issue. [London]. 1014181885. 2018-01-25. Who. Who's.
  5. Book: Cassell & the Publishers Association directory of publishing, 1990.. 1989. Cassell. Cassell Ltd.. 978-0304318872. Fifteenth. London. 21220244.
  6. November 30, 2009. Change Makers. Publishers Weekly.
  7. Web site: FRANCES COADY. ARAGI INC.. en-US. 2019-05-20.
  8. Book: Who's Who 2019. A & C Black Bloomsbury Publishing plc Oxford University Press. 2019.
  9. Web site: The History of Faber: 1980s. Faber & Faber Blog. en-US. 2019-05-10. 8 July 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190708140701/https://www.faber.co.uk/blog/about/faber-1980s/. dead.
  10. Book: Who's who 2018 : an annual biographical dictionary.. 9781472935014. One hundred and seventieth year of issue. [London]. 1014181885. 2018-01-25. Who. Who's.
  11. Book: Faber, Toby. Faber & Faber: The Untold Story of a Great Publishing House. 2019-04-30. Faber & Faber. 9780571339068. en.
  12. Book: Phillips, Caryl. The European Tribe. 2017-09-13. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. 9780525562801. en.
  13. November 22, 1987. Top Cape job goes to Coady. Publishing News.
  14. November 22, 1987. The Powers that Will Be . The Sunday Times Magazine.
  15. O'Kelly. Lisa. September 19, 1990. A paperback publisher raising its shelf-esteem. The Independent.
  16. Book: ILMP 1990 : International literary market place ; 25th anniversary.. 1989. R.R. Bowker Co. R.R. Bowker Company.. 978-0835226189. New York. 20928914. registration.
  17. Web site: POWER & INFLUENCE IN THE ARTS: BOOKS / Contesting the cover charge. Durrant. Sabine. February 21, 1994. The Independent. en. 2019-05-10.
  18. Web site: Full text of "Culture And Imperialism By Edward W. Said". archive.org. 2019-05-20.
  19. Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, and Martin Amis Recall Surviving the Satanic Verses Fatwa. Elie. Paul. Vanity Fair. 29 April 2014 . en. 2019-05-10.
  20. News: Looking back at Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses. 2012-09-14. The Guardian. 2019-05-10. en-GB. 0261-3077.
  21. McDonald. Russell. 2016. Harnessing the Currents of Textual Fluidity: Salman Rushdie's Making of East, West. Textual Cultures. 10. 2. 76–106. 1559-2936. 26514868. 10.14434/textual.v10i2.19517. free.
  22. Book: Pilger, John. Distant Voices. 2010-09-02. Random House. 9781407086378. en.
  23. April 30, 1993. New Roles for Callil, Coady at Random House. The Bookseller.
  24. Web site: A WEEK IN BOOKS. Walsh. John. 1995-06-17. The Independent. en. 2019-05-10.
  25. Web site: About Granta Books. Granta Books. 2019-05-20. 21 June 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160621035753/http://www.grantabooks.com/about-granta-books-3017. dead.
  26. Web site: Change Makers: Frances Coady. PublishersWeekly.com. en. 2019-05-10.
  27. Book: Chabon, Michael. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. 2000. Macmillan. 9780312282998. en.
  28. Web site: World Voices: Norway's Per Petterson Relaxes. Neal. Adweek GalleyCat. April 27, 2007.
  29. Web site: Publishers Marketplace: Log In. www.publishersmarketplace.com. 2019-05-20.
  30. Web site: People Round-Up, Early June 2015. Publishing Trends. June 4, 2015.
  31. Web site: Change Makers: Frances Coady. PublishersWeekly.com. en. Lynn . Andriani. November 30, 2009. 2019-05-20.
  32. Web site: Naomi Klein, Friedman Fighter Naomi Klein. www.naomiklein.org. 2019-05-20.
  33. Book: Klein, Naomi. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. 2010-04-01. Henry Holt and Company. 9781429919487. en.
  34. News: Book Review 'Generosity: An Enhancement,' by Richard Powers. McInerney. Jay. 2009-10-01. The New York Times. 2019-05-20. en-US. 0362-4331.
  35. News: Secrets that live in the Sunset. 2008-05-11. Lynell. George. Los Angeles Times. 2019-05-20. en-US. 0458-3035.
  36. Web site: Deborah Eisenberg: City Life In The Smallest Spaces. Martha . Woodroof. NPR.org. en. April 6, 2010. 2019-05-20.
  37. Web site: Esi Edugyan's Publishing Cinderella Story: Man Booker Prize Finalist .... .
  38. News: Carr. David. Media Chiefs Form Venture to E Publish. The New York Times. September 18, 2012.
  39. Web site: One Year Later, Coady's Atavist Books Set to Launch. PublishersWeekly.com. Michael. Coffey. October 7, 2013. en. 2019-05-20.
  40. News: Karen Russell's 'Sleep Donation'. Kakutani. Michiko. 2014-04-02. The New York Times. 2019-05-10. en-US. 0362-4331.
  41. Web site: FRANCES COADY. Aragi Inc.. en-US. 2019-05-10.
  42. News: Peter Carey: making it up as he goes along. Brockes. Emma. 2012-03-16. The Guardian. 2019-05-20. en-GB. 0261-3077.

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