About Karl Weber

Karl Weber, president of Karl Weber Literary, is a writer, editor, and book developer with over twenty-five years' experience in the book publishing industry. He is an expert in general-interest non-fiction publishing, specializing in topics from business and personal finance to politics, current affairs, history, autobiography, self-help, and personal development.

Weber's recent projects include the New York Times bestseller Creating a World Without Poverty, co-authored with Muhammad Yunus, winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize (2008); The Triple Bottom Line, a guide to sustainable business co-authored with Andrew W. Savitz (2006); and The Best of I.F. Stone, a collection of pieces by the famed independent journalist which Weber edited (2006).  Weber served as project editor on the New York Times number one best seller What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception by Scott McClellan (2008).

Weber has advised and assisted authors in a wide range of non-fiction areas, including, for example, former president Jimmy Carter, author of several New York Times bestsellers, including An Hour Before Daylight (2000), which Weber edited; business guru Adrian Slywotzky, a director at the consulting firm of Oliver Wyman and author of The Upside (2007), How To Grow When Markets Don't (2003) and How Digital Is Your Business? (2000), all of which Weber co-authored; executive Jonathan M. Tisch, who wrote Chocolates on the Pillow Aren't Enough (2007) and The Power of We: Succeeding Through Partnerships (2004) in collaboration with Weber; former Representative Richard Gephardt, author of An Even Better Place (2001), which Weber edited; Abraham H. Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League and author of two books edited by Weber; and the Honorable Richard Butler, former Executive Chairman of UNSCOM and author of The Greatest Threat: Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destructions, and the Crisis of Global Security (2001), also edited by Weber.

Before founding his company, Weber served as managing director of the Times Business imprint at Random House (1994-1997), where he helped to launch one of the industry's most successful business book programs. Among the books he produced for Times Business are Hope Is Not a Method, a widely-praised management guide by former U.S. Army Chief of Staff General Gordon Sullivan and Colonel Michael Harper (later a Broadway Books paperback), and How To Start and Run an Investment Club by Tom O'Hara and Ken Janke of the National Association of Investment Clubs (over 200,000 copies in print).

While at Random House, Weber also served as editor of Living Faith (1996), the spiritual autobiography of Jimmy Carter, which spent eleven weeks on the New York Times bestseller list (over 270,000 copies sold) as well as President Carter's Sources of Strength (1997), also a New York Times bestseller.

Before joining Random House, Weber was senior editor and publisher in the trade book division of John Wiley & Sons (1986-1994). He developed a series of successful investment books, helped to conceive and launch Wiley's famous Portable MBA series of management guides, and produced several highly-praised books about the worlds of business and finance, including The Big Fix: Inside the S&L Scandals by James Ring Adams and Brokers, Bagmen, and Moles by David Greising and Laurie Morse.

When Worth magazine in 1997 selected the fifteen best investment books of the past 150 years, two were titles edited by Weber: Investment Illusions by Martin S. Fridson and Investment Psychology Explained by Martin J. Pring.

Prior to serving at Wiley, Weber was an editor at McGraw-Hill and at AMACOM, the book-publishing division of the American Management Association. Weber is also an expert on educational testing. He has written seven books for students about how to earn high scores on standardized tests and appears on a series of educational video programs published by Video Aided Instruction.

Weber lives in Irvington, New York with his wife, Mary-Jo Weber.
 

Selected books developed by Karl Weber Literary

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