Peter Straus joined Rogers, Coleridge and White in 2002. He has been in the book world for over twenty years and has worked at Hodder & Stoughton, Hamish Hamilton and Macmillan. He was the publisher of Picador for twelve years and latterly the Editor in Chief of all the adult trade imprints at Macmillan, in his time there working with such authors as Don De Lillo, Helen Fielding, Cormac McCarthy, V.S.Naipaul, and Michael Ondaatje. His client list includes Kate Atkinson, Carol Ann Duffy, Rachel Johnson, Kate Long, Alexander Masters, Don Paterson, Jenny Pitman, Adam Thirlwell, Rupert Thomson and Colm Toibin.