Stephanie Frerich, Vice President and Executive Editor

Stephanie Frerich is a Vice President and Executive Editor at Simon & Schuster, where she acquires nonfiction that seeks to understand how we live and why and pique our curiosity, on topics such as current events, narrative nonfiction, business and economics, psychology, politics, nature, history,, and memoir.
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Some of her bestselling and award-winning books include Burn Book by Kara Swisher, Enough by Cassidy Hutchinson,  I Would Leave Me If I Could by Halsey, Measure What Matters by John Doerr, Secure Love by Julie Menanno, No Filter by Sarah Frier, How to Invest and The Highest Calling by David Rubenstein, Brotopia by Emily Chang, and The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo. Other of her authors include Justice Anthony Kennedy, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Gretchen Morgenson, CNN anchor Laura Coates, Congressman Ro Khanna, podcaster and NYU professor Scott Galloway, Bloomberg Businessweek editor Brad Stone, Death, Sex & Money podcast host Anna Sale,  Nobel Prize economist Richard Thaler, neuroscientist Heather Berlin,  and more.

Hailing from Minnesota, she studied James Joyce while pursuing a master’s degree at Trinity College in Ireland, learned how to run a small publishing company at Ivan R. Dee in Chicago, briefly left publishing for a jaunt in the startup world at Skillshare, and brings an innovative, hands-on approach for how to publish good books.