Before co-founding Avid Reader Press in 2018, Jofie Ferrari-Adler spent eight years at the Simon & Schuster imprint. Previously he worked at Grove Atlantic, Viking Penguin, and the independent publisher Four Walls Eight Windows, and before that as a bookseller. He acquires both fiction and narrative nonfiction, with an emphasis on politics, current affairs, American history, and a range of narrative journalism. In recent years he has edited the #1 New York Times bestsellers Three Women by Lisa Taddeo, The Oregon Trail by Rinker Buck, Principles by Ray Dalio, The Heart of Everything That Is by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin, The TB12 Method by Tom Brady, and Tiger Woods by Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian. Other authors with whom he’s worked include: Jack Antonoff, Michael Bamberger, Gregory Boyle, Ray Bradbury, Marie Brenner, Ed Caesar, Ian Caldwell, Tom Coyne, James Dodson, Michaeleen Doucleff, Bob Dylan, Craig Fehrman, Emily Gould, Garrett M. Graff, Bruce Handy, Boris Kachka, Farhad Manjoo, Karl Marlantes, New York magazine, T. J. Newman, Susan Orlean, Pearl Jam, Poets & Writers magazine, Joe Posnanski, Peter Sagal, Martin Cruz Smith, Tommy Tomlinson, Lynn Vincent, Sara Vladic, Chris Wallace, and Don Winslow. Raised in a small town south of Pittsburgh, Jofie is also a contributing editor to Poets & Writers magazine, and he served for a decade on the AAP’s International Freedom to Publish Committee.