Andrew Rosenheim

Rosenheim was born and raised on the South Side of Chicago. He graduated from Yale University in English Literature, then came to the UK in 1977 as a Rhodes Scholar.^[3] As a student at Pembroke College, Oxford, he completed a degree in philosophy, politics and economics, and an Master of Letters in English. He lives near Oxford.^{[citation needed]}

In the 1980s, Rosenheim worked on early electronic publishing projects in the United States with Dick Brass, before joining Wang Laboratories in the United Kingdom,^[4] where he became involved in artificial intelligence and language-research projects. His second novel, Hands On (1993) was the first novel to explore AI-generated poetry.^[5]

From 1990, Rosenheim was Director of Electronic Publishing at Oxford University Press, spearheading the digital release of the Oxford English Dictionary on CD-ROM.^[6][7][8] He left to join Penguin Press as Managing Director in 1997, where he expanded the number of titles published under the Allen Lane imprint.^[9][10]

Following his involvement in the Ladbroke Grove rail crash,^[11][12] Rosenheim left Penguin in 2001 to write full-time.^[13][14]

In 2012, Rosenheim joined Amazon.com as the UK editor of Kindle Singles,^[15] the retailer's effort to sell fiction and nonfiction for its e-reader device. In 2018, Rosenheim moved to Audible Inc. as senior editor of Audible Original Publishing. He left Audible in 2019 to focus on writing full-time once more.^{[citation needed]}