Robert Kimzey

Robert Kimzey "oversees the production of all PublicAffairs books and edits a select list of titles, including most recently, Lou Cannon's Governor Reagan: His Rise to Power and Mark Arax and Rick Wartzman's The King of California: J. G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire. Previously, he was Publications Director for Human Rights Watch, where he oversaw the production of approximately seventy reports a year; devised a sales strategy for the library and academic markets that quintupled the gross sales; reorganized the fulfillment and production departments; negotiated distribution deals in the U.S. and Europe; implemented a redesign of the reports; and established the organization's presence on the World Wide Web. Before Human Rights Watch he spent four years as an assistant editor in the trade division of Macmillan Publishing Company. For five years, he was the assistant coordinator for the New York University Summer Publishing Institute, of which he is a graduate. He completed his B.A. at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California in 1985."