Henry Eliot to head up Macmillan Collector's Library and Picador Collection
Henry Eliot has been appointed publishing director of Macmillan Collector’s Library and Picador Collection.
Henry joins from Bloomsbury, where he is currently Editor of Backlist and Heritage.
He has published classics and other backlist titles at Bloomsbury, Faber & Faber and Penguin Random House. At Bloomsbury, he coordinated a major heritage publishing project for the company's forthcoming 40th anniversary. At Faber, he published into the celebrated Faber Editions series and oversaw reissues of Samuel Beckett, Sylvia Plath, Edna O'Brien and Flannery O'Connor. At Penguin, he worked across both the Penguin Classics and Modern Classics lists, hosted the Penguin Classics podcast and wrote The Penguin Classics Book, which was shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year in 2018.
‘I feel extraordinarily lucky to be working on such a cutting-edge modern classics list, especially one that embodies the unique publishing heritage of Picador.’
— Henry Eliot
Henry is the author of four other books and currently hosts Read the Classics, a popular online book club. He has spoken about the classics on BBC Radio 4's Front Row, up Scafell Pike in the Lake District, at the Mumbai literary festival, outside a villa in Umbria and inside a haunted mansion in Vermont.
Mary Mount, Publisher, Picador, said:
'Macmillan Collector’s LIbrary (MCL) has gone from strength to strength over the last ten years, under the fabulous stewardship of the incomparable Harriet Sanders, and is now one of the most beautiful and stylish classics lists in the country. I am delighted that Henry Eliot will be joining us to take MCL into the next decade. Henry’s knowledge of and passion for the classics is clear and I am thrilled that such a jewel in Pan
Macmillan’s crown will be in such safe hands for the future. Henry will also be overseeing the Picador Collection, our vibrant, groundbreaking list of modern classics published across the last five decades.'
Henry Eliot said:
'I am hugely excited to be joining the Pan Macmillan team. It will be a privilege looking after two such prestigious classics lists. Harriet has grown the Macmillan Collector’s Library into an international phenomenon over the last ten years and I look forward to building on her incredible work, evolving the catalogue and seeking out new audiences around the world. And the Picador Collection is an unparalleled showcase of bestsellers, cult classics and mischievous surprises: I feel extraordinarily lucky to be working on such a cutting-edge modern classics list, especially one that embodies the unique publishing heritage of Picador.'
Henry will begin his new role on 11th January and will report to Picador Publisher, Mary Mount.
