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Our Agents
Larry Kirshbaum | Susanna Einstein | Jud Laghi
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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 Tipping Point 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 last year to start his new career as a literary agent and founder of LJK Literary Management, LLC.
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 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.
There, she read widely (fiction and non-fiction, commercial and literary, practical and narrative) on behalf of the company's clients, which include
major publishers from twelve countries and Warner Bros. Pictures. She also acted as the Director of Scouting for children's and young adult books.
Susanna has several areas of interest, including contemporary, literary, historical and crime fiction; narrative non-fiction; memoir; biography.
She is particularly interested in representing books for middle-grade readers and young adults—and anything else that's so good she can't put it down. |
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Jud Laghi has represented a broad range of non-fiction and fiction, including the bestsellers Brainiac by Ken Jennings, The Hipster Handbook by Robert Lanham, Found: The Best Lost, Tossed and Forgotten Items From Around the World by Davy Rothbart, and Why Do Men Have Nipples? by Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg. He began his career as a literary agent at ICM.
Other authors and books that Jud represents include Duck Duck Wally by Gabe Rotter , Bookmark Now: Writing In Unreaderly Times by Kevin Smokler, the international bestselling novel Snakes And Earrings by Hitomi Kanehara, and forthcoming books from Pitchfork Media and Sports Illustrated writer Tim Layden. his clients include a diverse range of journalists who contribute to The New York Times, Rolling Stone, New York, Spin, ESPN The Magazine, GQ, Sports Illustrated, Vibe, The Atlantic Monthly, The Believer, Slate and the radio show This American Life. He graduated from Trinity College in 1997 with a B.A. in English and creative writing, and lives in his native Brooklyn.
Jud works closely with his clients at every stage of the publishing process, and looks for authors who are like-minded in thinking ahead of the curve and taking risks. |
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