Sean Desmond is Vice President and Publisher of Twelve Books, a division of Hachette Book Group. He has been in book publishing for 27 years, with positions at W. W. Norton, ICM, St. Martin’s Press, and The Crown Publishing Group before arriving at Twelve. He has worked on a number of bestselling books including Russian Roulette by David Corn and Michael Isikoff, Every Day is a Gift by Tammy Duckworth, Natural Causes by Barbara Ehrenreich, Tribe by Sebastian Junger, Democracy by Condoleezza Rice, And the Good News Is… by Dana Perino, The Year of Voting Dangerously by Maureen Dowd, and Decision Points by President George W. Bush. Sean holds a degree in English from Harvard College.