About Us

PublicAffairs was founded by Peter Osnos with a mission to embody “standards, values, and flair.” More directly, Peter issued to us a challenge: to publish “Good Books About Things that Matter”—a guiding principle we happily retain.

From the start, PublicAffairs authors have been at the heart of the national and global conversation, and their books have served to inform, advocate, educate, debunk, and speak truth to power. Over more than 25 years we have been fortunate to welcome onto our lists four Nobel Prize winners, and three Presidential Medal of Freedom winners, as well as winners of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award, and Pulitzer Prize-winners. We publish many national bestsellers, pioneering investigative reporters, business innovators, cutting-edge economists, skeptics, enthusiasts, and brilliantly compelling writers across many disciplines and sometimes entirely outside them.

We take our inspiration from this noisy, sometimes raucous, always inspiring group, and renew our commitment to support and sustain them with every book we publish.

Staff Directory

Anu Roy-Chaudhury

Associate Editor

Email: anupama.roy-chaudhury@hbgusa.com

Anu Roy-Chaudhury joined PublicAffairs in 2019 and currently acquires for both PublicAffairs and Bold Type Books. Her areas of interest include social and cultural histories, blends of memoir and biography and works by underrepresented voices and backgrounds. She has worked with authors Craig Seligman, Tara Isabella Burton, Moshik Temkin, Sarah Scoles and Patrick Winn. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and began her publishing career as an intern here at PublicAffairs in the summer of 2018. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.