Shaye Areheart will deliver the eighth annual Publishing & Editing Lecture “The Future of Book Publishing: A Perspective from the Columbia Publishing Course,” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 21, in Isaacs Auditorium, Seibert Hall, at Susquehanna University.
Areheart is director of the Columbia Publishing Program at Columbia University, the oldest and considered the most prestigious post-graduate publishing program in the United States.
For 31 years, Areheart worked as an editor at Doubleday, now Knopf Doubleday and the Crown Publishing Group, both divisions of Penguin Random House. Over the course of her editorial career, she has worked with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Ray Bradbury, Martin Amis, Christopher Isherwood, Alice Hoffman, Gillian Flynn, Douglas Adams and Michael Jackson. During her tenure as director of Columbia Publishing Program, Areheart expanded the program by creating a four-week sister program at Exeter College in Oxford, United Kingdom.
The annual Publishing & Editing Lecture brings to the university accomplished working professionals, alumni and leaders in the publishing industry to engage students, faculty and the public in conversations about contemporary practice and change in the industry.