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Chris Jackson is publisher and editor-in-chief of the One World imprint of Random House.
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Early life
Jackson grew up in Harlem, New York, and attended Hunter College High School and Columbia University.
Career
From 2006 to 2016 Jackson was executive editor of Spiegel and Grau before becoming head of One World. The New York Times describes Jackson as a "rare public star in the world of book publishing." Calling Jackson "someone you need to know," Ebony cites his work with Ta-Nehisi Coates, Jay-Z and Beyoncé as well as Jackson's "background and understanding of how to take Black stories and turn them into something that the entire market should--and could--appreciate." Critic Vinson Cunningham, writing for The New York Times Magazine, says, "To the extent that 21st-century literary audiences have been introduced to the realities and absurdities born of the phenomenon of race in America, Jackson has done a disproportionate amount of that introducing."