After over four decades in publishing on both sides of the Atlantic, and eleven years as an agent with Aragi, Frances Coady has retired. An Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, she was the founding publisher of Vintage UK, and relaunched Granta Books before moving to the New York where she reinvented Picador as a paperback house, and published Frances Coady Books.
From her earliest days at Faber to her time at Aragi the many writers she has worked with include — Lorrie Moore, Alan Bennett, Edward W Said, Deborah Levy, Jeanette Winterson, Naomi Klein, Michael Cunningham, Claudia Rankine, Ocean Vuong, and Rebecca Solnit among many others.