Whitney Peeling

Whitney Peeling "joined PublicAffairs as Director of Publicity in December 2005 (taking the reins from PublicAffairs’ founding publicity director Gene Taft). Peeling was most recently Assistant Director of Publicity at Houghton Mifflin, where she handled the campaigns for many of Houghton’s leading non-fiction releases, including Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation and Reefer Madness, Jerome Karabel’s The Chosen, Adam Hochschild’s Bury the Chains, and Richard Dawkins’s A Devil’s Chaplain and The Ancestor’s Tale. Born and raised in Allenwood, PA, Peeling began her publishing career as a publicity assistant in Houghton Mifflin’s New York office days after receiving her diploma from Columbia College. After holding the position of Associate Publicist at W.W. Norton, handling publicity for both debut fiction and nonfiction there, Peeling was invited back to Houghton Mifflin, where she graduated from Senior Publicist to Assistant Director over the next five years, collaborating with marketing, editorial, and sales to create effective campaigns for major house authors."