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Our Agents
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Larry Kirshbaum has been involved in publishing for nearly 40 years from all perspectives: as an author, publisher and agent. After graduating from the University of Michigan in 1966, he worked as a correspondent for Newsweek and then co-authored a book with Roger Rapoport called Is the Library Burning which was published by Random House in 1970. He worked for Random House until 1974 when he joined Warner Books as vice-president of marketing. He remained at Warner, later called Time-Warner, for over 30 years, spending his last 10 years as CEO and Chairman of the Time-Warner Book Group.
Larry has worked with hundreds of authors—business leaders like Jack Welch, Michael Eisner, and Sandy Weill, leading non-fiction writers such as Malcolm Gladwell (The TippingPoint and Blink), literary success stories like Anita Shreve and Alice Sebold, and popular commercial writers including Nicholas Sparks, James Patterson, David Baldacci, Nelson DeMille, Sandra Brown, Michael Connelly, and Scott Turow.
Larry retired from Time-Warner at the end of 2005 to start his new career as a literary agent and founder of LJK Literary Management, LLC. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Baker & Taylor and Overdrive.com, two companies that specialize as distributors to libraries and bookstores.
Larry is an active supporter of both the PEN organization, which promotes literacy and defends writers’ rights around the world, and the creative writing program of the University of Michigan. |
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A native New Yorker, Susanna got her bachelor's degree in Performance Studies from Northwestern University, and after a brief detour into the theater world, began her editorial career at Warner Books (now Grand Central Publishing) in 1995. During her six years there, she edited crime fiction, historical fiction, contemporary fiction and non-fiction, and worked with authors like Charlotte Carter, James Ellroy, Karen Essex, Pete Hamill, Christian Jacq, Maureen Tan and David Foster Wallace. In 2002, Susanna became a senior scout at Maria B. Campbell Associates, an international scouting agency. She is one of the founding agents and the Director of Foreign Rights at LJK Literary Management.
Susanna’s clients include Lincoln Agnew & Katie van Camp, Maggie Anton, Tim Davys, Ree Drummond, David Ellis, Rachael Herron, Cecelia Holland, Jenny Wingfield, and Lara Zielin.
She is interested in crime fiction, historical fiction, and women’s fiction, as well as the occasional non-fiction book. She is particulary interested in finding wonderful books for middle-grade or young adult readers.
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Born in Texas, Meg Thompson moved to New York to attend New York University, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Magna Cum Laude with a degree in British and American Literature. She went to work for President Bill Clinton in his Harlem office right after graduating, where she served as his research assistant and fact-checker on his memoirs, My Life. Meg worked for President Clinton for two years and then assisted him on his worldwide book tour once his memoirs were completed and published. After the book tour, she joined the staff at The Charlie Rose Show as a researcher, where she worked on Mr. Rose’s writing projects and television show.
Meg joined Larry Kirshbaum at LJK as he started up his agency. In the beginning, she worked on polishing proposals, scouting for new writers, and editing manuscripts for the agency’s clients. Now, as an agent, she is interested in memoir, narrative non-fiction, pop science and psychology, health, new media projects, cookbooks, and books on popular culture and humor. Her clients include New York Times essayist Tim Kreider, digital media entrepreneur Aaron Dignan, blogger Kelle Hampton, MacArthur “Genius Award” winner Dr. Peter Pronovost (whom she co-represents with Larry Kirshbaum), journalist Mason Currey, vegan chef and comedian Jenn Shagrin, Wired blogger Ken Denmead (whom she represents with Jud Laghi), comedic writer April Winchell, and adventure reporter Chris Dixon. |
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Lisa joined LJK in 2008 and has over 20 years experience in the publishing business, including co-founding The Prague Post, the largest English-language newspaper in Central Europe, in 1991, along with its book division and website, Praguepost.com. Lisa lived in Prague as the newspaper’s Publisher for almost a decade. She moved to Manhattan in 1999, where she worked in strategy and business development for Dow Jones and was Executive Director, International, for the Wall Street Journal Online, responsible for business operations in Europe and Asia. Originally from Champaign, Illinois, Lisa has a BA in Sociology from the University of California at Santa Barbara and an MBA from Harvard.
Lisa’s clients include stylist and TV personality Daisy Lewellyn (whom she co-represents with Meg Thompson), runlikeagirl blogger Mina Samuels, entrepreneur Steve Cohen and New York Post columnist Jennifer Gould Keil.
An avid reader of blogs, newspapers and magazines in addition to books, Lisa is especially interested in non-fiction, memoirs, literary and popular fiction, sports, business, political and popular culture topics, as well as some children’s and middle-grade.
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Sandy Hodgman graduated magna cum laude from Colgate University with a degree in Literature and wrote her senior thesis on the brilliance of the movie Clueless as a modern-day adaptation of Jane Austen. She began her publishing career in editorial at John Wiley & Sons and at Little, Brown, but soon realized she loved the thrill of placing authors’ work globally. After handling the foreign rights at The Robbins Office Literary Agency for four years, in 2004 she moved to HarperCollins Publishers, handling the UK and translation rights for such authors as Wally Lamb, Gregory Maguire, and Madeleine Albright. Sandy joined LJK Literary in 2010. |
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