Kim McArthur
President & Publisher, McArthur & Company Publishing Ltd.
Founded in Toronto in 1998, McArthur & Company is a Canadian-owned and operated trade book publisher and exporter of quality Canadian and international fiction and non-fiction for adults and children. McArthur founded the company in May 1998, when Time Warner closed Little, Brown Canada, a subsidiary which McArthur had started and run since 1987.
In its first nine years of operation, McArthur & Company has had 60 bestsellers, including 25 #1 bestsellers, split between Canadian and international authors, and between fiction and non-fiction titles. M & Co's authors have been shortlisted for 17 awards in Canada, including the Giller Prize, the Leacock Award, and the Charles E. Taylor Prize, and have won 7 of them. McArthur & Company is now one of the top three Canadian-owned publishers of Canadian fiction in Canada. Ms. McArthur holds a B.A. from the University of Western Ontario, Hon. and a B.Ed. from Althouse College. Prior to her career in publishing, she was a teacher.
