JOHN MUTTER is a journalist who covers the book world and is the editor-in-chief and co-founder of Shelf Awareness, the online company with publications for booksellers, librarians, and book lovers. He previously spent 20 years as an editor at Publishers Weekly. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College who also studied in Germany for a year, he has long been interested in history, literature, language, and politics. He is the author of Fortune and Glass (Left Field Publishing).
