Elisabeth Kallick Dyssegaard

Elisabeth Kallick Dyssegaard is a graduate of Georgetown University, with a master's degree in English literature from Columbia University. She has worked in publishing for more than twenty years. Her fluencies include her native Danish, plus Norwegian and Swedish, and she has published everything from translations (bringing such bestselling authors as Peter Hoeg/Smilla's Sense of Snow and Jostein Gaarder/Sophie's World to the US), to literary fiction and narrative non-fiction, including history, popular culture, memoir, biography and more practical topics. She spent sixteen years at the then-independent Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and went on to Ballantine/Random House. She is now executive editor of Smithsonian Books, an imprint of HarperCollins, where her authors include National Book Award winner Robert Remini; noted historian and commentator Thomas Fleming; and New York Times bestselling author Ken Davis.