“It's one thing to be writing in South or Latin America, where, except for Brazil, every country, however small and hard to find on a map, speaks Spanish, but quite another to be writing in, say, Hungary, a landlocked nation of 10 million people, with a language that very few people outside Hungary can read or speak.”

English-born writer and novelist

Michael Korda is an English-born writer and novelist who became editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster in New York City. He worked in book publishing as well as in fiction, bringing together editorial experience and a literary career. He is known for his writing and for his leadership at one of the major American publishing houses. His public voice comes from both sides of that work, as an editor shaping books and as an author writing them.