OREN J. TEICHER worked on behalf of the nation’s independent booksellers for more than 30 years, retiring as CEO of the American Booksellers Association at the end of 2019. While at ABA, he helped found the American Booksellers for Free Expression and was engaged in multiple First Amendment battles as its media coalition chair. He served as a trustee of his local library in White Plains, New York, and is currently serving as a board member at the National Coalition Against Censorship. Teicher was named Publishers Weekly Person of the Year in 2013 and in 2019 was awarded the National Book Foundation’s Literarian Award for outstanding service to the American literary community.