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Altie Karper was the editorial director of Schocken Books/Penguin Random House for more than twenty years. Authors with whom she worked include Aharon Appelfeld, Leela Corman, Mark Russ Federman, Kevin Henkes, Irving Howe, Francine Klagsbrun, Deborah Lipstadt, Arthur Miller, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Peter Sis, Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, Elie Wiesel, Lori Zabar, and Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg.