Richard Sanders

Richard Louis Sanders (born July 14, 1949) is a former Executive Editor of Entertainment Weekly and People magazines and the author of a series of character-driven thrillers. While the novels are designed as entertainment, with large dollops of humor, they deal with such serious issues as addiction, depression, despair and, concomitantly, spiritual renewal and redemption—all subjects close to Sanders’ life. Magazines His career in magazines began in 1978, when he became an Associate Editor at Us Magazine, a then year-old publication started by The New York Times Company as a competitor to the successful, recently launched People. Sanders was the Features Editor by the time he left Us in 1985. He joined People as a Senior Writer in 1985, specializing in entertainment coverage and had been promoted to Senior Editor by the time he left in 1991. He transferred to another magazine in the Time Inc. stable, Entertainment Weekly, joining the publication as a Senior Editor during its formative, groundbreaking years, when it won three ASME General Excellence Awards. Sanders had been promoted to Assistant Managing Editor and Executive Editor by the time he returned to People in 2002.