Primary Job Title CEO & Co-Founder Primary Organization Zola Books
Gender Male
Joe Regal has spent more than two decades in publishing, starting at the Russell & Volkening Literary Agency, where he worked with Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Anne Tyler, Eudora Welty, and Annie Dillard, as well as Nobel Prize-winner Nadine Gordimer. He founded his own agency, Regal Literary, in 2002; there he represented books as diverse as
Big Fish, The Time Traveler’s Wife, Shantaram, The Master and Margarita, Scott Pilgrim, The Tao of Wu, and The Traveler. He co-founded Zola Books in 2011 as the first truly integrated social eBook retailer, creating an alternative ecosystem that empowers writers, publishers, independent booksellers, and curators. Joe graduated magna cum laude from Columbia University in 1990.