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We represent authors with a unique team approach.
Park & Fine Literary and Media is led by Theresa Park and Celeste Fine, who bring decades of experience representing some of the book and film industry's most beloved and visionary fiction and nonfiction authors. Their clients have topped bestseller lists around the world, enjoyed blockbuster film success, earned major advances from the best publishers in the business, and sold millions of copies of their books in every language.
Today, bestselling authors are expected to do more than ever. Park & Fine brings a 360° approach to agenting that supports an exclusive list of authors with an entire team of experts, which includes talented literary agents, an experienced sales professional, creative marketing and publicity strategists, a dedicated foreign rights department, an accomplished editorial team, and savvy television and film minds, who work together on every book.
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Bestselling careers require a 360° strategy.
Park & Fine Literary and Media is home to dozens of #1 New York Times bestselling books. Our authors’ books have sold hundreds of millions of copies around the world, have been translated into every language, and have been made into numerous blockbuster movies and scripted television series. Our authors enjoy world-class speaking careers, run multimillion-dollar businesses and brands centered around their books, and reach hundreds of millions of readers through social media, podcasts, TED talks, and traditional media.
FICTION
In fiction, Nicholas Sparks has written 21 New York Times bestsellers, 14 of which have hit the #1 spot. 11 of his books, including THE NOTEBOOK, have been turned into multimillion-dollar movies. #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber is one of today’s most popular writers with more than 200 million copies of her books in print worldwide. Her novels have spent over 1,000 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and thirteen of these novels hit the number one spot. Two of Emily Giffin’s New York Times bestsellers have hit the #1 spot, with all six on the New York Times bestseller list. SOMETHING BORROWED was a major motion picture starring Kate Hudson and John Krasinski. Both of Janice Y.K. Lee’s novels are bestsellers, and the most recent, THE EXPATRIATES, is being adapted as a television series for Amazon studios with Nicole Kidman producing and Lulu Wang directing. Taylor Jenkins Reid’s upcoming novel, DAISY JONES AND THE SIX, is being adapted for television by Reese Witherspoon for Hello Sunshine, starring Riley Keogh as Daisy. Cecelia Ahern has sold over 25 million copies of her novels and her novel, PS, I LOVE YOU was adapted into a major motion picture starring Hilary Swank.
NONFICTION
In nonfiction, our clients earn $12 - $15 million in publishing advances every year and have turned bestselling success into global movements and multimillion-dollar businesses and brands. Some of the biggest icons in health, personal development, and business, including household names like Bulletproof coffee creator Dave Asprey, Bullet Journal creator Ryder Carroll, #1 New York Times bestselling author Rocco DiSpirito, Oprah pick WOMEN FOOD AND GOD author Geneen Roth, Nickelodeon star JoJo Siwa, author of THE VIRGIN DIET JJ Virgin, and Paleo icons Robb Wolf and Mark Sisson enjoy success alongside originally self-published bestsellers, like THE MIRACLE MORNING creator Hal Elrod and #1 New York Times bestselling author Izabella Wentz. Serious nonfiction authors who are doing original research such as author of THE END OF ALZHEIMER’S Dale Bredesen, MD, Head of the Sinclair Lab at Harvard David Sinclair, PhD, author EAT TO BEAT DISEASE William W. Li, MD, pioneer of The Human Genome Project Leroy Hood, MD, PhD, and the creator of the most popular elective at Yale Business School Zoe Chance, PhD, are celebrated for books that appeal to popular audiences while receiving accolades in the highest professional circles.
CHILDREN'S & YOUNG ADULT
In children’s and young adult fiction, Park & Fine’s clients have likewise sold millions of copies worldwide and have written New York Times bestselling and award-winning books. Clients include Soman Chainani, whose bestselling series, The School for Good and Evil, has sold over two million copies and is in development to become a major motion picture with Joe Roth (Alice in Wonderland; Snow White and the Huntsman); #1 New York Times bestselling author Lindsay Cummings (Zenith); New York Times bestselling authors Brenda Drake (Thief of Lies) and Sara Holland (Everless, Havenfall), young adult fantasy author Crystal Smith, whose Bloodleaf trilogy is in development with Cavalry Media; and critical darlings such as Emily Bain Murphy (The Disappearances) and Julia Drake, whose debut novel The Last True Poets of the Sea has six starred reviews, and counting. Upcoming debut releases include Amélie Wen Zhao’s Blood Heir (Delacorte), Kate O’Shaughnessy’s The Lonely Heart of Maybelle Lane (Knopf, Fall 2019), Daniel Aleman's Indivisible (Disney, Fall 2020), and Maiya Ibrahim's The Spice Road (Delacorte, Spring 2021).
Our Clients
Cecelia Ahern is the author of 15 novels, which are published in 47 countries and have sold 25 million copies worldwide. At 21-years-old she wrote her debut novel PS I Love You, which was adapted to film starring Hilary Swank. Her second novel Love, Rosie was also adapted to film. Cecelia also creates original TV series, including co-creating the ABC comedy series Samantha Who?
Cecelia lives in Dublin, Ireland with her family. Her new book ROAR will be published by Grand Central Publishing in 2019.
Daniel Aleman is the debut author of INDIVISIBLE, a major release coming from Little, Brown in 2021. He was born and raised in Mexico City; his family moved to the United States when he was a teenager, and Daniel now lives in Toronto, where he went to college.
Adi Alsaid was born and raised in Mexico City. He attended college at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. After graduating, he packed up his car and escaped to the California coastline to become a writer. He’s now back in his hometown, where he writes, coaches basketball, and makes every dish he eats as spicy as possible. In addition to Mexico, he’s lived in Tel Aviv, Las Vegas and Monterey, California.
Agent: Pete Knapp
Emily Anthes is a science journalist and author. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Wired, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Nature, Businessweek, Discover, Psychology Today, Scientific American and elsewhere. She holds a master's degree in science writing from MIT and a bachelor's degree in the history of science and medicine from Yale, where she also studied creative writing.
She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Born in Germany, Jessika grew up primarily in England, going on to study at the Fondation Nationale Des Sciences Politiques and the Sorbonne in Paris and at Oxford University. Since that time has she lived and worked as an editor and writer all around the world—in New York, Connecticut, the Netherlands and Hong Kong.
She currently lives with her family in Brooklyn.
Emily Bain Murphy grew up in Indiana, Hong Kong, and Tokyo. She graduated from Tufts University and now lives in San Francisco with her family. If she isn’t writing or reading, there’s a good chance Emily is visiting a nearby library or wrestling a coat onto or off of one of her two children. She is also passionate about fighting child trafficking with the nonprofit Love146.
Agent: Pete Knapp
An internationally acclaimed social psychologist and the recognized expert on obedience to authority, Thomas is a professor of social psychology at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. He is also the undisputed expert on Stanley Milgram's life and work, penning the first biography of Milgram ever published.
He has authored more than forty articles and papers on Milgram and lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
Carmindy was the resident makeup expert on the TLC makeover show What Not to Wear. Her work can be seen on the editorial pages of leading magazines—Cosmopolitan, InStyle, Self, Seventeen, Glamour and many more—and in her four books.
She is the creator and founder of Carmindy & Co cosmetics.
Frances Cha is the author of the novel If I Had Your Face. She grew up in the United States, Hong Kong and South Korea, and graduated from Dartmouth College with a BA in English Literature and Asian Studies. For her MFA in creative writing she attended Columbia University, where she received a Dean’s Fellowship.
She worked as the assistant managing editor of Samsung Economic Research Institute’s business journal in Seoul and as a travel and culture editor for CNN International in Seoul and Hong Kong. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, V Magazine, WWD and The Believer among other publications. Most recently, her short story “As Long As I Live” was published in the Korean-language anthology New York Story (Artizan Books, Korea).
She has taught Media Studies at Ewha Womens University, creative writing at Columbia University and Yonsei University and lectured at Seoul National University.
She lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn with her husband and two daughters and spends summer in Seoul, Korea.
Soman Chainani’s first novel, The School for Good and Evil, debuted on the New York Times bestseller list, and has been translated into over 26 languages across six continents, with a film adaptation from Universal in the works. As a graduate of Harvard University and Columbia University’s MFA Film Program, Soman has made films that have played at over 150 festivals around the world. When he’s not telling stories or teaching in New York City, Soman is a die-hard tennis player who never lost a first-round match for ten years . . . until he started writing The School for Good and Evil. Now he loses all the time.
Agent: Pete Knapp
Robin earned a BA from Carleton College and an MBA from The Tuck School at Dartmouth College. She worked in direct marketing for twenty years before becoming a freelance writer. She is also known to wander the globe as a travel journalist and looks forward to writing other books no one has written in the future.
Lane Clarke received her Bachelor’s Degree in English Literature from Virginia Tech, where she received an honorable mention in the 2015 Steger Poetry Prize, administered by Nikki Giovanni. She got her J.D. from Chicago University and now lives in Northern Virginia and practices law in Washington D.C. She is currently working on her debut young adult novel, Love Times Infinity.
Agent: Peter Knapp
A former critical care nurse, Jon wrote his first novel between hospital shifts and raising two children. After receiving a creative writing grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, he turned to writing full time, producing two critically acclaimed novels. During a short stint in Hollywood, he wrote numerous screenplays for Fox, Warner Bros. and Sony, and is the co-writer of the film Minority Report, directed by Steven Spielberg.
Jon lives with his wife outside of Philadelphia. His new novel, HARRY'S TREES, published in June 2018. It is an Amazon Best of the Month and BookPage Top 10 pick for June.
A Professor of Architecture at UC Berkeley, Galen is a Kellogg National Fellow in interdisciplinary leadership. She has received two Graham Foundation grants, and has been on design teams awarded First Prize in a national competition for an inner-city park for St. Paul, plus First Prize for Parc La Villette, Paris and Seventh Place in the Spectacle Island Design Competition, Boston. She has also served as a juror for several urban design and public art competitions while teaching courses on the social and cultural bases of architectural and urban design and research methods.
Her current research includes the body and the near-environment, the office of the future, environmental sociology and sociology of parks.
Lindsay Cummings is the author of the THE MURDER COMPLEX series and the BALANCE KEEPERS series. She lives in Texas with her husband and is hard at work on THE ANDROMA SAGA with her co-writer, Sasha Alsberg.
Agent: Pete Knapp
Growing up as an Air Force brat, Brenda Drake was used to being the new kid at her school. Her favorite childhood memories are hearing her Irish grandmother tell her strange tales, giving Brenda her with a lifelong love of storytelling. When Brenda’s not writing or organizing author events such as Pitch Madness, she’s haunting libraries, bookstores, and coffee shops or reading someplace quiet and not at all exotic (much to her disappointment).
Agent: Pete Knapp
Julia Drake received her MFA in fiction from Columbia University, and her short fiction has appeared in McSweeney's Internet Tendency and The Gettysburg Review. Her debut novel The Last True Poets of the Sea came out in 2019 and received six starred reviews.
Agent: Pete Knapp
Francesca Flores is a writer, traveler and linguist. Raised in Pittsburgh, she read every fantasy book she could get her hands on and started writing her own stories at a young age. She began writing Diamond City while working as a corporate travel manager. When she's not writing or reading, Francesca enjoys traveling, dancing ballet and jazz, practicing trapeze and contortion, and visiting parks and trails around San Francisco, where she currently resides.
Agent: Pete Knapp
A screenwriter and novelist born in Wilmington, DE, Joseph is the co-creator and showrunner of the hit Amazon series "RED OAKS." His film credits include “Stonehearst Asylum,” “Go with Me” and "Wind Chill,” which was produced by Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney.
He lives in Philadelphia with his wife and young children, and is currently working on a new novel, the second season of “RED OAKS” and several film projects.
This #1 New York Times bestselling author is a graduate of Wake Forest University and the University of Virginia School of Law. After practicing litigation at a New York firm for several years, she moved to London, when she wrote her first novel, SOMETHING BORROWED. That book became a NYT bestseller, as have all her subsequent novels.
Her seventh novel, FIRST COMES LOVE, published in July 2016, and also became a NYT bestseller. Her latest novel, ALL WE EVER WANTED, published in June 2018. She lives in Atlanta with her husband and three children.
Adalyn Grace is a New York Times bestselling author of All the Stars and Teeth, which was named “2020’s biggest YA fantasy” by Entertainment Weekly. Prior to becoming an author, Adalyn spent four years working in live theatre, acted as the managing editor of a nonprofit newspaper, and studied storytelling as an intern on Nickelodeon Animation’s popular series The Legend of Korra. Local to San Diego, Adalyn spends her non-writing days by watching too much anime, and by playing video games with her bossy cat and two dorky dogs.
Agent: Peter Knapp
Ayana Gray is an author of young adult fantasy and currently working on her debut, BEASTS OF PREY. She lives in Florida.
Michael Gray Bulla is an English Major at Wells College. He was named the 2017 Nashville Youth Poet Laureate with Southern Word and has won six awards from the Scholastic Art and Writing Competition. His debut poetry collection LETTERS TO THE HOME publishes this September.
Leigh spent fifteen years in public relations, writing almost every day for other people until she started penning her own story as an author. Her first novel, THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY, will debut in May 2016.
Born and raised in Greensboro, NC, she now lives in Philadelphia with her husband and two children.
Sara Holland is the New York Times bestselling author of the EVERLESS series and the HAVENFALL series. She grew up in small-town Minnesota among hundreds of books, graduated from Wesleyan University, and has worked in everything from a tea shop to a dentist’s office before moving to New York City to work in publishing. When she isn’t writing, you might find her exploring the city’s bookstores or enjoying its cafes.
Agent: Pete Knapp
Maiya Ibrahim is the debut author of the THE SPICE ROAD trilogy, forthcoming from Delacorte in Spring 2021. She has been writing stories since she learned how to boot up a PC and open her notepad. Born and raised in Sydney, when not writing Maiya can be found indulging in Lebanese food with her family, playing Skyrim, watching Game of Thrones, or swimming with friends at one of Australia's many spectacular beaches.
Taylor Jenkins Reid is an author and screenwriter from Acton, Massachusetts. She is the author of ONE TRUE LOVES, MAYBE IN ANOTHER LIFE, AFTER I DO, and FOREVER, INTERRUPTED. Her novels have been named best books of summer by People, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, InStyle, PopSugar, Buzzfeed, Goodreads, and others. Her most recent novel, THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO, is out now and is an Indie Next pick, an Amazon Best Book of the Month, and has been featured in Entertainment Weekly's Must List and Good Morning America's Summer Reading Roundup. Critics are calling it "a twisting tale of glamour, ambition, and what Old Hollywood can mean to a contemporary world" (USA Today) and "one of the most captivating reads of 2017" (Buzzfeed).
In addition to her novels, Taylor's essays have been appeared in places such as the Los Angeles Times, the Huffington Post, and Money Magazine.
She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, their daughter, and their dog.
Jerome is a Distinguished Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine and an Adjunct Professor of Medicine and Bioethics at Case Western Reserve University. Editor-in-Chief of New England Journal of Medicine for more than 8 years, he was honored by membership in the Institute of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has been referred to as the "Conscience of American Medicine."
He lives in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Lucy is a writer living in Los Angeles, California. She grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, attended Williams College in the Berkshires, and still misses the East Coast very much. When she’s not writing, Lucy can usually be found obsessing over the latest music, inventing new flavors of ice cream, or having what she feels are perfectly acceptable conversations with her dog, Ernie.
Agent: Pete Knapp
CARLYN KOLKERA graduate of Columbia University, Carlyn is a former legal reporter for Bloomberg News and Reuters, where she covered legal affairs and the business of law. As a freelance writer, her work has appeared on the New York Times website, Atlantic CityLab, The American Lawyer and Kveller.
She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband and two sons.
MICHELLE MACROY-HIGGINS
An expert on language development and disorders in children, with a focus on late talkers, Michelle Macroy-Higgins PhD teaches courses and lectures on the subject. She is a Speech-Language Pathologist and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology at Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY).
She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband and two children.
Born and raised in Hong Kong, the child of Korean immigrants, Janice traveled to the United States for school and graduated from Harvard College with a degree in English and American Literature and Language. Before starting her first book, she worked for several years as an editor at Elle and Mirabella magazines, with work also appearing in Glamour, Travel and Leisure and numerous other publications. Her debut novel, THE PIANO TEACHER, was published to critical acclaim, spending 19 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, highlighted as a Richard and Judy Summer Read pick (UK) and translated into 26 languages worldwide.
Her latest novel, THE EXPATRIATES, published in January 2016. She lives in New York City with her husband and four children.
Sarah is the author of the popular crime fiction series featuring forensic psychologist Dr. Sylvia Strange—DARK ALCHEMY, DANTES’INFERNO, DANGEROUS ATTACHMENTS, ACQUIRED MOTIVES, and A DESPERATE SILENCE. Before becoming a full-time writer, she had many interesting jobs, including working for the NM Attorney General’s Office, which frequently took her inside the New Mexico State Penitentiary and ultimately led to the creation of Dr. Sylvia Strange. She has also collaborated with former CIA covert operative Valerie Plame Wilson, co-authoring the Vanessa Pierson spy novels BLOWBACK and BURNED.
When she’s not on deadline, Lovett works with writers as a coach, teacher and consultant. She lives with her family in Santa Fe.
Giving up a law career to simplify her life, Janet fell in love with the idea so much that in 1992, she started a newsletter on the subject, Simple Living, which quickly grew to world-wide readership. She compiled her wisdom in her best-selling book, THE SIMPLE LIVING GUIDE, known as "the bible of the simplicity movement." Her follow-up book, SIMPLE LOVING, traced the connection between simplicity and loving relationships.
A regular guest on NPR, she lives in Seattle, Washington.
One of today’s most popular writers with more than 200 million copies of her books in print worldwide, Debbie Macomber's novels have spent over 1,000 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list with thirteen of them hitting the number one spot. Known to bring compelling relationships that embrace family, romance and enduring friendships to life, her beloved Cedar Cove Series was Hallmark Channel’s first dramatic scripted television series. Starring Andie McDowell, it ran to popular acclaim for 4 seasons.
She has also published two bestselling cookbooks, numerous inspirational and nonfiction works, and two acclaimed children’s books.
Bethany, a Tacoma, Washington native and Western Washington University graduate, is actually very much like her fictional heroine Nikki Lanier. She kicks serious butt (fourth degree black belt in karate), and has a day job (graphic design) that lets her work with her puppy (who snores like a flugel horn).
When she’s not traveling to exotic lands, she can be found chasing after her daughter, or glued to the computer working on her next novel.
Born and raised in Montreal, Canada, Catherine is a graduate of McGill University and McGill Law School. She currently blogs for The Huffington Post, and her novels are all international bestsellers that have been translated into multiple languages.
She practices law in Montreal, where she lives with her husband.
Having graduated in 2014, Rebecca holds a B.A. in both English Creative Writing and in Chemistry, and she currently works as a technical writer in Michigan. NAMELESS QUEEN is her debut novel.
Agent: Pete Knapp
A lawyer, musician, screenwriter, and novelist, Martin is one of Quebec’s top crime novelists best known for his Detective Sergeant Victor Lessard series. Penning six novels and several short stories, he’s now adapting his work for films and television. Sous la surface has been optioned by a producer for the U.S. market and the Victor Lessard series for a TV series in Quebec.He lives and works in Quebec, Canada.
Anna Michels worked as a Norwegian language tutor, historical interpreter, farmhand, and waitress before building a career in books. She lives in the Chicago area with her husband. 26 KISSES is her first novel.
Agent: Pete Knapp
Mikki is a long-time freelance journalist, editor and writer. In her past life, she helped launch Time Inc. Custom Publishing, was a long-time contributor to Sports Illlustrated for Kids and produced a CD-ROM about the Vietnam War for The New York Times. She has also been a communications consultant for organizations including Girl Scouts of the USA and Wellstone Action.
A single mother (twice) by choice, she, her daughter Sophie and son Dylan make their home in Minnesota.
B.R. was born in the U.S. but raised in Bermuda, South Africa and Germany. A contributing editor for The Atlantic and an occasional opinion columnist for the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, he is also an associate professor of North Korean studies and American literature at Dongseo University in Busan, South Korea.
He currently resides in South Korea.
Jacquetta lives in Austin, Texas, is a graduate of The University of Texas, and is a member of SCBWI. Her debut middle grade novel WISHING UPON THE SAME STARS releases from Harper Children's in 2022.
Twin sisters Sarena and Sasha Nanua are the writing duo behind the forthcoming RIA & RANI young adult fantasy duology, beginning with SISTERS OF THE SNAKE (Harper Teen). They grew up and live in Ontario, Canada and have been writing books since they were nine-years-old. They are graduates of the English and Professional Writing programs at the University of Toronto.
Linda is the bestselling author of HANDYMAN, NOT A SPARROW FALLS, IF I GAINED THE WORLD, AT THE SCENT OF WATER, and IN SEARCH OF EDEN. Her debut novel for the Christian fiction market, NOT A SPARROW FALLS, was a 2003 Christy Award finalist in the contemporary category.
Linda lives and writes in Tacoma, Washington
Kate O'Shaughnessy is a graduate of Yale University and lives in Berkeley, California.
Agent: Pete Knapp
A professor of physics, Robert is the former chair of the Department of Physics at the University of Maryland and the former public relations director of the American Physical Society in Washington, DC. Author of more than a hundred technical papers on the structure and properties of single-crystal surfaces, Professor Park now devotes himself to helping the public distinguish genuine scientific advances from foolish and fraudulent claims. A frequent guest on news programs, he posts a provocative weekly column on the internet, WHAT'S NEW, that is read avidly by scientists, journalists and government officials.
Robert lives in Adelphi, Maryland.
Formerly an investment banker at Morgan Stanley and a practicing corporate lawyer, Frank is one of the world's leading experts on market regulation and is a frequent commentator for the Financial Times, New York Times, NPR and CBS's 60 Minutes. He is a graduate of Yale Law School and is the George E. Barrett Professor of Law and Finance and the founding director of the Center for Corporate and Securities Law at the University of San Diego.
A professor for both the Molecular Biology and Public Affairs Departments at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, Lee teaches courses and lectures widely on the social impact of biotechnology, with an emphasis on repro-genetics. In 1993, he was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
He lives with his wife in Princeton, New Jersey.
Crystal is a wedding photographer and graphic artist, and an unabashed love story enthusiast. When she’s not ordering wedding clients or fictional characters to kiss, she can be found re-watching Jane Eyre or reading ghost stories with all the lights on. She lives in Utah with her husband and their two children. Bloodleaf, her debut novel, will publish form Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers in Fall 2018.
With over 105 million copies of his books sold, Nicholas is truly one of the world's most beloved storytellers, with works translated into more than fifty languages. All his novels, including THREE WEEKS WITH MY BROTHER—the memoir he wrote with his brother, Micah—have been New York Times and International bestsellers. He has also adapted and released twelve of his novels as major motion pictures—THE BEST OF ME, SAFE HAVEN, THE LUCKY ONE, THE LAST SONG, DEAR JOHN, NIGHTS IN RODANTHE, MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE, A WALK TO REMEMBER, THE LONGEST RIDE, THE CHOICE, and THE NOTEBOOK.
His next novel, EVERY BREATH, will publish in October 2018. The author lives and writes in North Carolina.
Lisa’s debut novel, PASTORS' WIVES, was inspired by an article she reported as a staff writer for Time. She joined the magazine as a Tokyo correspondent; later covering news, trends, business, arts and religion stateside until 2009. Since then, Lisa has worked with Warner Bros., Sony Studios and CBS writing original TV pilots. Her articles and essays have been published in The New York Times, Boston Globe, Money, Adweek and Bon Appetit. Her first book, REMEMBER ME (HarperCollins, 2006), a travelogue and exploration of modern American funerals, was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick.
Born and raised in Kobe, Japan, Lisa is a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and Rutgers College—and is now based in New Jersey.
A Senior Member of Wolfson College and a Visiting Scholar of the Scott Polar Research Institute, both of the University of Cambridge, Kelly is also a consulting historian for the British Film Institute. As a film producer and writer, she received an Emmy Award for Best Historical Documentary for “Shackleton's Voyage of Endurance,” a film for the PBS series NOVA also nominated for Best Documentary of 2002.
She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and daughter.
Specializing in science and culture, Emily’s stories have appeared in the New York Times, OnEarth Magazine, Odyssey Magazine, Mother Jones Magazine and Isotope: A Journal of Literary Science and Nature Writing, as well as on Radiolab, Radio OnEarth and This American Life programs. She holds degrees in English literature and journalism from Columbia University where she was awarded a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship.
She lives in New York City.
Brandon Wallace is a cartoonist and writer with a BFA in Illustration from the Maryland Institute College of Art, and an MFA in Illustration from Syracuse University. Brandon is currently working on a graphic novel based on the true story of The International Sweethearts of Rhythm, the first racially-integrated, all women's band that formed the 1940's and criss-crossed America while on tour, challenging racial and gender barriers in the process.
Will Walton grew up in a small town in rural Georgia and often found himself helping out on his grandparent’s small farm. Currently, he lives a few hours away from his hometown, in Athens, Georgia, where he went to college. When he’s not writing, there’s a good chance you’ll find him at his other job: a bookseller at the Avid Bookshop.
Agent: Pete Knapp
Born in Paris, raised in a multicultural community in Beijing, and currently living in New York City, Amélie Wen Zhao has a bone-deep love for traveling and immersing herself in new worlds and cultures.
Agent: Pete Knapp
A longtime and acclaimed novelist, journalist and author, Robert has written several works of groundbreaking historical and contemporary works. ON THE LAPS OF GODS, received the 2007 J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award. He has also won the George Polk Award for Medical Writing and a National Association of Science Writer's Award for best magazine article. Plus, he was a finalist for the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
He now lives and writes in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Gary is best-known for his original screenplay for The Book of Eli, the post-apocalyptic thriller starring Denzel Washington. He also co-wrote the Will Smith sci-fi movie After Earth and helped create Telltale Games' The Walking Dead, for which he was the co-recipient of a BAFTA award for Best Story. Most recently, he served as screenwriter for the upcoming Star Wars standalone film. He is currently writing the movie adaptation of the Mark Millar comic, Starlight, for 20th Century Fox.
Born and raised in London, England, Gary currently lives with his wife and daughter in San Francisco, California.
Artfully combining the love of cooking with the beauty of everyday things, Diana opened the multidisciplinary creative studio, The Jewels of New York, in 2009. Her mission is to uncover the hidden treasures New York has to offer and share them with others through seasonally based cooking. Her projects with leading lifestyle magazines and design savvy clients focus on the simplicity and elegance of daily meals.
With a background in home and lifestyle design, Diana strives to bring a sense of beauty and community to the table through catering and food consultation services.
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Hungary and Croatia
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Japan
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Gin Stephens a NYT bestseller!
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Vishen Lakhiani on the New York Times bestseller list!
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Frances Cha in conversation with the New York Times
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Soman Chainani's SCHOOL FOR GOOD AND EVIL coming to Netflix
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DAISY JONES & THE SIX wins Book of the Year!
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Cover Reveal: THE RETURN by Nicholas Sparks
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Cover Reveal: THE LIES THAT BIND by Emily Giffin
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Film Adaptation News! Taylor Jenkins Reid's THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO to be adapted by Freeform
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LIFESPAN is a New York Times Best Seller
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