Nigel Newton is the founder and Chief Executive of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Bloomsbury Publishing plc is an independent, London-based publishing house known for literary novels. It is a constituent of the FTSE SmallCap Index. The company's growth over the past decade is primarily attributable to the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling. Bloomsbury was named Publisher of...

, one of the largest publishing companies in the United Kingdom. Newton was joined by David Reynolds, Liz Calder and Alan Wherry, in his new venture, which was launched at the Frankfurt Book Fair

Frankfurt Book Fair

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 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

Harry Potter

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 series, at the recommendation of his daughter, beginning in 1997. Newton has overseen Bloomsbury in its publishing of such highly regarded authors as Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood

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, Khaled Hosseini

Khaled Hosseini

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 and
Joanna Trollope

Joanna Trollope

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. Bloomsbury established an American subsidiary in 1998 called Blooomsbury USA. A children's subsidiary of Bloomsbury USA was founded in 2002.

Newton is a dual citizen of the US and the UK. Born and raised in San Francisco, son of noted winemaker Peter Newton, Nigel was educated at Deerfield Academy

Deerfield Academy

Deerfield Academy is an independent, coeducational boarding school in Deerfield, Massachusetts, United States. It is a four-year college-preparatory school with approximately 600 students and about 100 faculty, all of whom live on or near campus....

 in Massachusetts. He moved to England to read English Literature at Selwyn College, Cambridge

Selwyn College, Cambridge

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. Newton's career started as a graduate trainee at Macmillan

Macmillan Publishers

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 in London. He subsequently moved to Sidgwick and Jackson as Sales Manager and eventually Deputy Managing Director.

Newtown is still involved with the management of Newton Vineyards, located in St.Helena, CA.

Newton is married with three children.