Pamela Dorman is one of the publishing industry's leading women's fiction editors, according to Writer's Digest. A 1979 graduate of Wesleyan University, Dorman is vice president and publisher of Pamela Dorman Books/Viking. She spoke to the Wesleyan magazine staff in her New York City office in anticipation of the seminar on book publishing that she will moderate during the university's Reunion and Commencement Weekend 2009.
Here she recalls a favorite moment from her career-trying to woo Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary to an American publisher. Visit www.wesleyan.edu/rc/2009/ for more information on Wesleyan University's Reunion and Commencement Weekend.