“What could be more embarrassing than a publisher who can’t write? But as it happened it was a wonderful ending, because the book worked.”ĭespite spending over 25 years in publishing, Kanon says making the transition to writing was relatively easy for him. “There’s just a time when you’re ready to do it.” He didn’t let anyone know he was writing Los Alamos. “I’m sort of a poster child for midlife career change,” says Kanon, who, at 68, is charming and eloquent. Kanon’s final publishing role was at Houghton Mifflin, where he was executive vice-president and director of the trade and reference divisions for eight years before leaving in 1995. Dutton as editor-in-chief, publisher, and then president. Within a few years, he joined Putnam/Coward McCann as editor-in-chief. After graduating from Harvard in 1970, Kanon took a job as an editor at Little, Brown. Kanon says he was too busy publishing works by other authors to consider writing a book of his own. But Kanon didn’t write Los Alamos (Broadway,1997), his first novel, until he was 50 years old. 3), has firmly established himself as an heir to Graham Greene. After seven postwar European thrillers, Edgar Award–winning author Joseph Kanon, whose latest novel is Leaving Berlin (Atria, Mar.
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