Geoffrey Kloske is the vice president and publisher of Riverhead Books

Riverhead Books

Riverhead Books is a division of Penguin Group .Notable books and major bestsellers published by Riverhead include Journals by Kurt Cobain; The Art of Happiness by His Holiness the Dalai Lama; The Color of Water by James McBride; Native Speaker, A Gesture Life, and Aloft by Chang-rae Lee; Fever...

 in New York; this is a division of Penguin Group

Penguin Group

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. He served as vice president and executive editor of Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster

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 from 1998-2006. He also worked as an editor at Little, Brown and Company

Little, Brown and Company

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 from 1992-1996. He has edited authors such as David Sedaris

David Sedaris

David Sedaris is a Grammy Award-nominated American humorist, writer, comedian, bestselling author, and radio contributor....

, Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers is an American writer, editor, and publisher. He is known for the best-selling memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and for his more recent work as a screenwriter. He is also the co-founder of the literacy project 826 Valencia.-Life:Eggers was born in Boston, Massachusetts,...

, Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...

, Sarah Vowell

Sarah Vowell

Sarah Jane Vowell is an American author, journalist, essayist and social commentator. Often referred to as a "social observer," Vowell has written five nonfiction books on American history and culture, and was a contributing editor for the radio program This American Life on Public Radio...

 and Geoff Nicholson

Geoff Nicholson

Geoff Nicholson is a British novelist and non-fiction writer. He was born in Sheffield and was educated at the Universities of Cambridge and Essex....

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He was named "It" Editor by Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly

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and one of "35 under 35" by New York Magazine in 2001.

He attended Kenyon College

Kenyon College

Kenyon College is a private liberal arts college in Gambier, Ohio, founded in 1824 by Bishop Philander Chase of The Episcopal Church, in parallel with the Bexley Hall seminary. It is the oldest private college in Ohio...

 from 1987-1991. After graduating he got his first job in the publishing industry as an editorial assistant at St. Martin's Press

St. Martin's Press

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 and worked with them from 1991-1992. He currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.

In 2005 he published a children's book, Once Upon a Time, the End (Asleep in 60 seconds) with illustrator Barry Blitt. The book was awarded a National Parenting Publications Award as well as an award from Publisher's Weekly.

Fiction Books Authored

Once Upon a Time, the End (Asleep in 60 Seconds) (2005) with Barry Blitt

Edited Works

• David Sedaris Naked (1998)
• Dave Eggers A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000)
• Bob Dylan Chronicles: Volume One (2004)
• Walter Wager My Side: By King Kong (2005)
• George Jonas Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team (2005)
• G. Legman Rationale of the Dirty Joke: An Analysis of Sexual Humor (2006)
• Sarah Vowell Assassination Vacation (2006)
• Michael D'Antonio The State Boys Rebellion (2004)
• RM Johnson Father Found (2000)
• RM Johnson The Harris Family (2001)
• Peter Lefcourt The Manhattan Beach Project (2005)
• David & Tom Gardner Motley Fool: What to Do With Your Money Now: Ten Steps to Staying Up in a Down Market (2002)
• Lauralee Summer Learning Joy From Dogs Without Collars (2003)
• Bernard Cooper The Bill From My Father (2006)
• Dr. Bob Arnot Wear and Tear: Stop the Pain and Put the Spring Back In Your Body (2003)
• Matthew Symonds Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle (2003)
• Lt. Col.Dave Grossman On Killing (1995)
• Paul Begala Is Our Children Learning?: The Case Against George W. Bush (2000)