Paul Bogaards has directed some of the most successful book campaigns of the modern era. His advocacy on behalf of writers and their work is well known. A longtime industry veteran – he spent three decades working at Knopf – Bogaards now runs his eponymous public relations firm, Bogaards PR. Among the authors he has worked with: Andre Agassi, Lidia Bastianich, Robert Caro, Jim Carrey, John Carreyrou, Julia Child, Bill Clinton, Paulo Coelho, Michael Crichton, Stephanie Danler, Joan Didion, Bret Easton Ellis, James Ellroy, Nora Ephron, Mike Finkel, Katharine Graham, Garth Risk Hallberg, Tom Hanks, Carl Hiaasen, Sarah Hoover, Kazuo Ishiguro, E L James’, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn,, Emily St. John Mandel, Cormac McCarthy, Christopher McDougall, Toni Morrison, Jo Nesbø, Anne Rice, Roxana Robinson, Sheryl Sandberg, Dani Shapiro, David Sibley, Sonia Sotomayor, Sharon Stone, Donna Tartt, Anne Tyler, Barbara Walters, and Dr. Andrew Weil.