Macmillan Announces Today the Sept. 17 Global Publication of Edward Snowden’s Memoir ‘Permanent Record’

Edward Snowden’s memoir “Permanent Record” will be published globally by Macmillan Publishers on September 17, 2019. In the United States the memoir will be published by Metropolitan Books, an imprint of Henry Holt; in the U.K. by Pan Macmillan; and in Germany by S. Fischer Verlag. The book was edited by Metropolitan Books under the leadership of Sara Bershtel, senior vice-president and publisher.

In 2013, Snowden, a former CIA agent and NSA contractor, shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the U.S. government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every phone call, text message, and email ever sent. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth. In “Permanent Record,” he tells his story for the very first time, bringing the reader along as he helps to create this system of mass surveillance, and then experiences the crisis of conscience that led him to try to bring it down.

“Edward Snowden decided at the age of 29 to give up his entire future for the good of his country,” said John Sargent, CEO of Macmillan Publishers. “He displayed enormous courage in doing so, and like him or not, his is an incredible American story. There is no doubt that the world is a better and more private place for his actions. Macmillan is enormously proud to publish ‘Permanent Record"

To date, “Permanent Record” is being published in more than 20 countries. World rights for the book are being sold by Devon Mazzone, director, subsidiary rights for FSG, Holt and Metropolitan Books: devon.mazzone@fsgbooks.com.

About Henry Holt and Metropolitan Books

Henry Holt and Company has been publishing quality fiction and nonfiction books for more than 150 years. A trade division of the Macmillan Publishing Group, Holt, along with its imprints Metropolitan Books and Holt Paperbacks, is a distinguished publisher of prize-winning books in general nonfiction in the areas of the arts, biography, current events, history, memoir, politics, science, sports and thought leadership and of literary and commercial fiction. Current authors on the Holt and Metropolitan lists include: Stacey Abrams, Paul Auster, Rick Atkinson, Andrew Bacevich, John Banville, Russell Brand, Stephen L. Carter, Susan Choi, Andy Cohen, Susan Faludi, Sebastian Faulks, Tom Frank, Caroline Fraser, Atul Gawande, Glenn Greenwald, Sheila Heti, Elton John, Stephen Kinzer, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Hilary Mantel, Bill McKibben, Herta Müller, Bill O’Reilly, Richard Price, Todd Purdum, Jeffrey Rosen, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and Michael Wolff, among many others.

About Macmillan

Macmillan Publishers is a global trade book publishing company with prominent imprints around the world. Macmillan publishes a broad range of award-winning books for children and adults in all categories and formats. U.S. publishers include Celadon Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Flatiron Books, Henry Holt & Company, Macmillan Audio, Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, St. Martin’s Press and Tor Books. In the UK, Australia, India, and South Africa, Macmillan publishes under the Pan Macmillan name. The German company, Holtzbrinck Deutsche Buchverlage, includes among its imprints S. Fischer, Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Rowohlt, and Droemer Knaur.

Macmillan Publishers is a division of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, a large family-owned media company headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany. us.macmillan.com