Dana Canedy

Biography

Dana Canedy (born June 8, 1965) is an American journalist, author, editor, and publishing executive who worked at the New York Times for over 20 years, winning a Pulitzer Prize in 2001. She served as the first African American and first woman administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes, a position she held from 2017 to 2020, and as the first African American to head a "major publishing imprint", as senior vice president and publisher of Simon & Schuster's flagship eponymous imprint from 2020 to 2022.