GAYLE FELDMAN has written for Publishers Weekly for 40 years. Since 1999, as U.S. correspondent for The Bookseller, she’s analyzed the American book business for U.K. readers. She has contributed to The New York Times, The Times of London, The Nation, and other publications. She is also the author of the cancer memoir You Don’t Have to Be Your Mother and Best and Worst of Times: The Changing Business of Trade Books, 1975-2002, which was published through a Columbia Journalism School fellowship. The National Endowment for the Humanities supported Nothing Random: Bennett Cerf and the Publishing House He Built (Random House) – 23 years in the making – with a Public Scholar award. Feldman lives in New York.
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