Megan Hogan, Senior Editor

Megan Hogan is looking for narrative and idea-driven nonfiction, especially literary and investigative journalism, science and nature, (pop) culture, overlooked and revisionist history, and a smattering of self-help. Many of her favorite projects are equal parts entertaining and enlightening.

She’s particularly drawn to hopeful books for anxious times and to books with real bearing on how we live our lives, as individuals and societies. She also has a soft spot for braided narratives, queer stories, graphic nonfiction, deep dives into the secret systems failing us today, and tales from the American West.  
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Past publications include national bestseller Why Fish Don’t Exist by Radiolab cohost Lulu Miller; Eve Fairbanks’s The Inheritors, winner of the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction; Katie Booth's The Invention of Miracles, a finalist for both the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography and the Mark Lynton History Prize; and New York Times bestseller The Fourth Turning Is Here by demographer Neil Howe. Authors she works with have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the MacArthur Genius Grant. 
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Her forthcoming projects tackle predatory landlords, therapy’s difficulty grappling with the real questions that lead to a well-lived life, the life of a nonbinary preacher during the American Revolution, and the shitty boyfriends of Western literature.

A graduate of Princeton University, Megan joined Simon & Schuster in 2014, after two years at a translation agency in Paris.