By Greg Hazley
Susan Lehman, director of communications and strategy for New York University School of Law’s Brennan Center for Justice, has been named publisher and editor of Twelve, a publishing imprint of Hachette Book Group.
Lehman takes over for Jonathan Karp at Twelve, which was set up as an author-friendly boutique publisher in 2005 to produce and market one book per month. Its authors include Christopher Hitchens and Sebastian Junger.
Karp was named publisher at Simon & Schuster in June.
At NYU, Lehman, an attorney, handled media relations and training, public education and advocacy for the center, a non-partisan organization that describes itself as part think tank and part public interest law firm.
Lehman was previously an editor at Riverhead Books and wrote, with Edward Hayes, “Mouthpiece: A Life in – And Just Outside – the Law” (Doubleday 2006). She was also senior editor at Talk magazine and producer for Court TV, following a criminal defense law career.
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