Joni Evans
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Evans in September 2011
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| Born | April 20, 1942 |
| Alma mater | University of Pittsburgh |
| Occupation | Publisher |
| Spouse(s) | Richard E. Snyder (divorced) |
| Partner(s) | Bob Perkins |
Joni Evans (born April 20, 1942) is an American book publisher of over 100 bestsellers, writer, editor, and literary agent. Evans’s background and career in publishing includes posts as Senior Vice President of the William Morris Agency (1994-2006), President and Publisher of Simon & Schuster (1977-1989), and Publisher at Random House (1989-1994).
Evans grew up in Larchmont, New York. She graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a BA in creative writing.
From 1989-1994, Evans was Executive Vice President at Random House, Adult Trade Division and also Publisher of Turtle Bay Books, a division of Random House. Previously, she had worked at Simon and Schuster for 14 years where she served as Subsidiary Rights Director, Associate Publisher, then as Editor in Chief of her own division, the Linden Press, and finally as President and Publisher of Simon and Schuster. Michael Korda in his memoir describes Evans and with her the rise of the importance of publishing rights in the mid-seventies as well as her eventual partnership with Richard E. Snyder.
From 1994-2007, Evans was a Vice-President at the William Morris agency. Evans represented a wide array of authors including Marcus Buckingham, Christopher Byron, Ann Coulter, Fannie Flagg, Martin Garbus, Peggy Noonan, James Patterson, Liz Smith, John Stossel and Michael Weisskopf.
Before that she worked as an editor at William Morrow Publishers, the Book of the Month Club, and for various women’s magazines.
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