One of the oldest Publishing Companies in america started in 1917 we are celebrating our hundredth anniversary. It is a long line of great writers and we are thrilled to perpetuate a lot of that. There is a movie abou was a movd there were two biographies. He sadly died at 49. He collected amazing writings but lived a little too wildly and died at 49. We relaunched this in 2012 and here we are celebrating the hundredth anniversary. Give us a snapshot in the publishing world. This is my 39th year in american publishing. I was at st. Martins press for many years. Ive been at margins for 19 years which makes me a newcomer. What are some of the books coming out . We have a great lineup this year a professor at harvards doing a memoir about her cousin who died in the prison system in los angeles. Shes a brilliant academic that tells this personal story that could really change the understanding of the american wing of the incarceration. The first book i did. Shes one of the greatest scholars of. This book is so surprising because its personal and gut wrenching. I think it is a catch. Another wellknown author that you have coming up. Probably our greatest living psychologist doing a book on the origins of creativity, which is examined from a biological genetics plaintiff view. He examines how the humanities and Sciences Must come togethere together in the future. He discusses how humans are distinctly human through their language and creativity. People always say it was developed 10,000 years ago, he says not so, over 100,000 years ago and he traces the history in music and speech and art. The lost founding father. John quincy adams has finally come into his own. He was the most hyper intellectual president and was pummeled in the election of 1828 and Andrew Jackson slaughtered him, the mobs came to the white house and there was the man who the author William Cooper said should be considered another founding father, the longstanding founding father. He came back to congress, led the fight into slavery and they passed the rule to try to muscle his voice. He died on the floor of congress against the mexicanamerican war in 1848 and its the last time they got together. His funeral was the secondlargest after lincoln. There will move people to tears. Its like what happens to a failed politician. We have had several bestsellers. Larry murphy was a huge hit and the first books failure are combined into new introduction. They became fascinated. It is a tragedy and the reading of examining a american eclipse, david aaron. He did a book before. America will have its first total eclipse coasttocoast [inaudible] all these scientists had people converged in wyoming. He creates this and you cannot put that down. The book down. One more book we want to talk about we always cover the familiar story. Wwe covered the march on washington and a letter from jail. It came in a it was about caleb washington arrested in alabama for a crime he never committed. He was on death row for many years. The. A woman from new york that workehad workedon his behalf anx children the book review on the front page and i said i cant believe people are recognizing this story. And books [inaudible] when i am no im not at the offe working all the time i love to work with writers and on vacation during commuting with these and it is the most exciting thing in the world. It is a craft that needs more attention. Im very proud to be doing it. We are adding one of these and i was excited by that. Great writers love to be edited and what a joy even the greatest editors of this century. There is one coming in october and that is one of the great throws i know i trained a whole generation all over the news and that gives me a great pride of the actual candidate. Delivered right division of north and, these are some of the books that are coming out this fall