Author and New York City publishing fixture John Freeman will join Knopf as executive editor on March 15, acquiring fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. He will report to executive v-p and publisher Reagan Arthur. Freeman comes to Knopf from Literary Hub, where he was executive editor, and formerly edited Granta. He is also the founder of the literary annual Freeman’s and multiple anthologies, including The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story, which is forthcoming in 2021.