Encounter Books is an activity of Encounter for Culture and Education, a tax exempt, non profit corporation dedicated to strengthening the marketplace of ideas and engaging in educational activities to help preserve democratic culture.

The founding editor and currently a consultant to Encounter Books is Peter Collier. He has worked as an author and editor for the last thirty years. During that time, he has written novels, short stories and screenplays, along with best selling biographies. Referred to in the New York Times as "America's premier biographer of dynastic tragedy," Collier is best known for The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty; The Kennedys: An American Dream; The Fords: An American Epic; and Destructive Generation (all with David Horowitz). He is also the author of The Fondas: A Hollywood Dynasty and The Roosevelts: An American Saga. Recent books include Medal of Honor: Portraits of Valor Beyond the Call of Duty, with photographs by Nick Del Calzo, and The Anti-Chomsky Reader, co-edited with David Horowitz.

The Director of Operations, Judy Hardin, has served in various executive roles in publishing for the last fifteen years.

Originally from Connecticut, Lauren Powers began her career in publishing at the University of California Press. After living in San Francisco for two years she relocated to NYC, and now works for Encounter Books.

To round out the group is Janet Varriano, managing Production and Acquisitions.

Roger Kimball is co-editor and publisher of The New Criterion and President and Publisher of Encounter Books. He is also an art critic for the London Spectator and National Review. He is the author, most recently, of The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art (Encounter Books, 2004).

Mr. Kimball is also the author of Art's Prospect: The Challenge of Tradition in an Age of Celebrity (Ivan R. Dee, 2003), Lives of The Mind: The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse (Ivan R. Dee, 2002), Experiments Against Reality: The Fate of Culture in the Postmodern Era (Ivan R. Dee, 2000), The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America (Encounter Books, 2000), and Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education (HarperCollins, 1990). A new edition of Tenured Radicals, revised and expanded, was published by Ivan R. Dee, in 1998.

Mr. Kimball lectures widely, has appeared on numerous television and radio programs, and has contributed to many publications here and in England, including The New Criterion, The Times Literary Supplement, Modern Painters, Literary Review, The Wall Street Journal, The Public Interest, Commentary, The Spectator, The New York Times Book Review, The Sunday Telegraph, The American Spectator, The Weekly Standard, First Things, American Outlook, Crisis, National Review, and The National Interest.

On assuming the role of publisher at Encounter Books, Mr. Kimball said: "I look forward to building on the superb foundation created by Peter Collier. By moving to New York, Encounter Books has positioned tself to play an even greater role in the intellectual and cultural life of America. At a moment when many publishers have forsaken serious non-fiction for the ephemeral and merely trendy, Encounter Books will continue to seek out and publish books that engage, illuminate, admonish, and inform."