Arthur A. Levine found­ed Levine Queri­do in April 2019, build­ing on his dis­tin­guished thir­ty-five-year career as an indus­try leader. Dur­ing his tenure, he guid­ed numer­ous award-win­ning books, includ­ing two Calde­cott Medal win­ners: Mirette on the High­wire by Emi­ly Arnold McCul­ly and Offi­cer Buck­le and Glo­ria by Peg­gy Rathmann.

He has proud­ly part­nered with a long list of acclaimed cre­ators, includ­ing J.K. Rowl­ing, Philip Pull­man, Markus Zusak, and many more. His mis­sion has always been to bring a diverse selec­tion of the world’s best lit­er­a­ture to Amer­i­can read­ers. At Levine Queri­do, he con­tin­ues this mis­sion by cham­pi­oning pow­er­ful and unique voic­es from a mul­ti­tude of cul­tures, both glob­al­ly and at home.

Under his lead­er­ship, LQ has become a trust­ed source for books cel­e­brat­ed for their pow­er, beau­ty, and crafts­man­ship. The com­pa­ny’s unwa­ver­ing com­mit­ment to diverse sto­ry­telling has led to major awards and nation­al best­sellers from cre­ators like Daniel Nay­eri, Shaun Tan, and Andrea Wang. Levine Queri­do is also intense­ly proud to be the only inde­pen­dent pub­lish­er in the past five years to have won all three of the ALA’s most pres­ti­gious awards: the Calde­cott, New­bery, and Printz. In addi­tion to over­see­ing the com­pa­ny, Arthur per­son­al­ly edits eight to ten books annually.