Nigel Newton

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Nigel Newton is the founder and Chief Executive of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, one of the largest publishing companies in the United Kingdom. Newton head hunted three of the brightest talents in publishing, David Reynolds, Liz Calder and Alan Wherry,^[1] to join him in his new venture, which was launched at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 1986.

Bloomsbury was originally founded to publish high quality fiction. It has since expanded into non fiction and children's books. Newton was instrumental in the publication of the J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series in 1997.^[2] Newton has overseen Bloomsbury in its publishing of such highly regarded authors as Margaret Atwood, Khaled Hosseini and Joanna Trollope.

Newton is a dual citizen of the USA and the UK. Born and raised in San Francisco, son of noted winemaker Peter Newton, Newton was educated at Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts. He moved to England to read English Literature at Selwyn College, Cambridge. ^[3] Newton's career started as a graduate trainee at Macmillan in London. He subsequently moved to Sidgwick and Jackson as Sales Manager and eventually Deputy Managing Director.

Newton is married with three children.