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Priscilla Painton, now a neighbor here in the Village, grew up in Paris and moved to the United States to attend Mount Holyoke College. She spent almost 30 years as a journalist, starting at The Berkshire Eagle in Pittsfield, MA, then moving on to The Washington Post and The Atlanta Constitution, and finally landing at Time, where she became the magazine’s first female number two as deputy managing editor.
As the journalism industry was beginning its decline, she leapt into publishing and became the editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster, heading up its nonfiction program. In that capacity, she manages a half-dozen editors, but she also has a history of publishing numerous bestsellers herself, from Walter Isaacson on Elon Musk and Robert Wright on Buddhism, to Hillary Clinton, Bill Browder, as well as celebrities, vice presidents, national security advisors, historians, journalists, doctors and even humorists like Dave Barry.
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