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Seth Schulman

Seth Schulman is a professional ghostwriter and editor specializing in business books, personal memoir, how-to, popular health/science books, and fiction of all kinds. Based in Providence, Rhode Island, he has worked with authors across the United States as well as in Israel, Spain, and the UK. Titles to his credit include Breaking News: A Stunning and Memorable Account of Reporting from Some of the Most Dangerous Places in the World (St. Martins); No Man’s Land: What to Do When Your Company Is Too Big to Be Small but Too Small to Be Big (Penguin/Portfolio); and The Cost of Bad Behavior: How Incivility Is Damaging Your Business and What to Do About It (Penguin/Portfolio). Book proposals prepared by Mr. Schulman have been purchased by a number of leading houses, including Penguin, Hyperion, St. Martin’s, Harvard Business School Press, Jossey-Bass, and New World Library.

In addition to his book-length ghostwriting and editing work, Mr. Schulman has co-authored numerous Harvard Business School case studies on brands such as Russian Standard Vodka, Sony Playstation2, XFL pro football league, Revlon cosmetics, Peapod interactive grocery, Tata Consultancy Services, Kinko’s, and Hewlett-Packard. He has also written under his own name a novel, short stories, magazine and journal articles, newsletters, white papers, reports, blogs, and a book-length doctoral dissertation dealing with the cultural and intellectual history of 20th century Europe.

Mr. Schulman has served as a consultant on media and popular culture to Arnold Worldwide, Hill Holliday, Digitas, and other national advertising agencies. He has counseled writers for several years as a staff member of the Brown University writing center. He holds a PhD in European history from Brown University and a BA with distinction from Cornell University. His honors include membership in Phi Beta Kappa and awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation, and the Vermont Studio Center.