Louise Dennys began her own publishing house at age twenty-five and helped build Lester & Orpen Dennys into an internationally renowned Canadian publishing house. Today she is Executive Publisher and Executive Vice-President of Random House of Canada, with strong roots in the Knopf Canada, Random House Canada, and Vintage Canada imprints, which she founded in the early nineties. These imprints are synonymous with books of outstanding quality in various genres and award-winning, bestselling books in Canada and around the world, publishing such authors as Naomi Klein, Michael Ondaatje, Margaret Atwood, Miriam Toews, Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro, P.D. James, and John Irving.
