has been involved with children’s books and publishing for forty years, first as an academic, then as publisher of Books for Young Readers, at Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and as founder of Front Street Books, an independent press he incorporated, deliberately, on April 1, 1994. In 2004 Front Street was acquired by Boyds Mills Press where Roxburgh was publisher until Sept. 2008. On Inauguration Day, 2009, Roxburgh launched namelos, a next-generation publisher for the new generation of readers.
Roxburgh has worked with such authors and artists as Felicia Bond, Nancy Eckholm Burkert, Brock Cole, Carolyn Coman, Roald Dahl, Donna Diamond, Madeleine L’Engle, Martine Leavitt, An Na, Patricia McCormick, Marilyn Nelson, Adam Rapp, Alvin Schwartz, George Selden, Uri Shulevitz, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Garth Williams, and Margot Zemach.
Roxburgh lectures and publishes widely on children's literature and children's publishing. For many years he taught in the Radcliffe Publishing Program, the Stanford Publishing Program, the Columbia Publishing Program, and the Highlights Foundation.
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