Kevin Doughten, Vice President and Editorial Director, Crown, edits a broad range of narrative nonfiction books on history, politics, biography, memoir, and culture. Throughout his career, he has worked with many bestselling authors, including scholars Professor Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (Begin Again) and Adam Grant (Give and Take); Pulitzer Prize–winning historians Manning Marable (Malcolm X) and Kai Bird (The Outlier); award-winning journalists David Sanger (The Perfect Weapon, New Cold Wars), Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes (#1 New York Times bestseller Shattered), Johann Hari (Stolen Focus), Sam Anderson (Boom Town), and David Philipps (Alpha); true-spy-story master Ben Macintyre (The Spy and the Traitor); artists from John Cleese to Phil Collins to Robbie Robertson; and lawyer and criminal justice reformer Brittany K. Barnett, whose A Knock at Midnight was named Amazon’s 2020 Best Book of the Year. Kevin started his publishing career at Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2004 and was previously an editor at Viking, where he was the acquiring editor of The Body Keeps the Score, by Bessel van der Kolk.