Jonathan Karp is Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of TWELVE, a new imprint within the Hachette Book Group established in August 2005 with the mandate to publish no more than one book per month. Among the first TWELVE books are Boomsday by Christopher Buckley; Hard Call by John McCain and Mark Salter; Microtrends by Mark Penn; The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner; and God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens, a #1 bestseller and finalist for the National Book Award.

Prior to 2005, Mr. Karp worked for sixteen years at Random House, where he rose from editorial assistant to Editor-in-Chief.  Among books he acquired and edited during his years there are Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand; Faith of My Fathers by John McCain and Mark Salter; The Conscience of a Liberal by Paul Wellstone; Franklin and Winston by Jon Meacham; What Should I Do With My Life? by Po Bronson; The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean; Thank You For Smoking by Christopher Buckley; Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson; Never Have Your Dog Stuffed by Alan Alda; and The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl.

He is a 1986 graduate of Brown University, where he was Editor-in-Chief of The Brown Daily Herald.  His writing has been published in The American Scholar, GQ, and The Washington Post. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and lives in Manhattan.

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