Nicholas Pearson is publishing director at Fourth Estate, where he has worked as an editor for the past 16 years. Fourth Estate publishes an eclectic list of 40 to 50 books a year. Authors include Siddhartha Mukherjee, James Gleick, Hilary Mantel, Michael Cunningham, Michael Chabon, Jonathan Franzen, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jeffrey Eugenides, Yiyun Li, Philip Hensher, and Doris Lessing.
