Louise Moore
Title
Honorary Doctor
Person Type
Honorary
Louise Moore is Managing Director of Michael Joseph, one of the biggest commercial publishing lists at Penguin Random House, specialising in women’s fiction, crime, thrillers, cookery, memoirs and lifestyle books.
After reading History at Girton College Cambridge, Louise began her publishing career working in children’s books at Hamish Hamilton. In 1988 Louise moved into adult publishing, working at Methuen before she started commissioning women’s fiction at Heinemann in 1992.
Louise joined Michael Joseph as an Editorial Director in 1997 and became Managing Director in 2006. She leads a team whose stated mission is to publish the widest possible variety of voices that speak to – and for – everyone, welcoming all readers in. She is passionate about finding books with imaginative ideas and great writing at their heart and taking those to the widest possible audience. She has published bestsellers from Marian Keyes, Jojo Moyes, Dawn French, Stephen Fry, Sue Townsend and Sue Perkins. As a long time editor of, and collaborator with, Jamie Oliver, she served as head judge on Channel 4’s The Great Cookbook Challenge. Most recently The Correspondent by Virigina Evans, published by Penguin Michael Joseph, won the Women’s Prize for Fiction. She is also Deputy Chair of Governors at UAL.