James Meader

Vice President and Associate Publisher
Vintage Books Backlist

In his role as Vice President and Associate Publisher of Vintage Books Backlist, James works with the estates of many legendary authors, as well as with the teams overseeing Vintage Classics, Everyman’s Library, Vintage Shorts, and media tie-ins.

Before joining the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group in 2019, he worked for 17 years at Picador, first in publicity and eventually as the imprint’s associate publisher, also acquiring and editing a number of books. Since beginning his publishing career in 2002, he has had the good fortune of working with a vast number of remarkable authors. A native of Maine, he studied comparative literature and Chinese at Middlebury College. He now lives in New Jersey with his wife and son.