Agents Panel -- Three CD

Esmond Harmsworth is a literary agent and a founding partner of the Zachary Shuster Harmsworth Literary Agency. Born in London, he was educated in England before graduating from Brown University and Harvard Law School. As a literary agent, he represents fiction and nonfiction. He is one of the leading U.S. agents for business books, and regularly places major titles on management, leadership, finance, marketing, and entrepreneurship with the leading publishers; his list also includes serious nonfiction books on topics such as politics, psychology, society as well as books on popular culture, health, food, religion, spirituality, fitness, and media. Published nonfiction books he's recently represented include the #1 Wall Street Journal business list best-seller, The Breakthrough Company by Keith McFarland (Crown Business); Thanks! How The New Science of Gratitude Can Make You Happier by Dr. Robert Emmons (Houghton Mifflin); Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making by David Rothkopf (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table by Sara Roahen (W. W. Norton); and The SHOW IT LOVE Workout by celebrity fitness trainer Kacy Duke (McGraw-Hill). For fiction, he represents literary fiction, mystery and crime, popular (mainstream) fiction and young adult and middle grade fiction. Many of his clients write "crossover" literary suspense and literary mystery novels; they include Laura Dietz, In The Tenth House (Crown); Sarah Stewart Taylor, Sweeney St. George mystery series (St. Martin's Press); Sabina Murray, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for The Caprices, and author of A Carnivore's Inquiry and Forgery (Grove/Atlantic); and Jedediah Berry, author of the forthcoming novel The Manual of Detection (Penguin Press). A guest lecturer at Boston University, he has also been a featured panelist or speaker at the Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism, the national conference of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the Breadloaf Writer's Conference, the Wesleyan Writer's Conference, Bouchercon, and the Iowa Writer's Workshop. He will conduct consultation appointments and present a topic to be announced.

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