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Jennifer Lyons
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| The Jennifer Lyons Literary Agency, LLC |
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The Jennifer Lyons Agency, LLC represents numerous award-winning authors and premier European publishers. The many awards the clients have received include The Nobel Prize, The Pulitzer, PEN awards, The National Jewish Book Award, The Koret, The Lambda and many others. It also specializes in launching and managing the writing life of first-tme authors.
We invite you to visit: www.jenniferlyonsliteraryagency.com.
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General fiction
Mystery
Fantasy/science fiction
Juvenile fiction
Biography
History
Religious
Mind/body/spirit
Health
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Lifestyle
Cookbooks
Children's books
Sports
African-American
Science
International authors and illustrated books
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TRADE REFERENCES
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"Jennifer Lyons is an extraordinary literay agent. She is both an idealist and a pragmatist -idealistic about the art of writing and pragmatic about the business of writing. That's precisely the combination a writer wants in a literary agent. Jennifer believes that books of the highest quality can find a place in an ever more commericalized enviornment. And through her elequent advocacy, both of contemporary talents and the estates of classics such as Issac Babel, Frank O'Connor and Heinrich Boell, she has done much to enrich American culture. Any writer who's lucky enough to be represented by Jennifer Lyons will find a vocal advocate, a steady advisor, and a true friend. I certainly have. There is nobody better."
Jed Perl
Art Critic
The New Rebublic
and author of NEW ART CITY, Knopf
"Jennifer Lyons is not just a highly competent book agent but an exceptional human being as well. She is warm, professional, transparent and has extenstive contacts in the publishing universe. It is a pleasure and honor to work with her."
Fawaz Gerges
Middle Eastern Consultant who regulalry appears on
CNN, ABC and Aljazera
also the author of JOURNEY OF A JIHADIST,
Harcourt
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LEADING CLIENTS
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Oscar Hijuelos who won the Pulitzer Prize for MAMBO KINGS and Banana Yoshimoto, KITCHEN. Also Chirstine King Farris, Martin Luther King's only sister and many others:
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BEST-KNOWN PROJECTS
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CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS MIND by Chuck Barris which was also a Miramax film and a Miramax Book.
MY BROTHER MARTIN, by Chirstine King Farris. Scholastic
MARCH ON, by Christine King Farris, Scholastic
VOODOO HEART by Scott Snyder, Dial
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ISSAC BABELNorton
DARK DUDE by Oscar Hijuelos
BEAUTIFUL MARIA by Oscar Hiuelos
THOUGHTS WITHOUT CIGARETTES Oscar Hijuelos
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MOST RECENT SALES / FORTHCOMING BOOKS
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MEXICAN HIGH by Liza Monroy, Spiegel & Grau/Doubleday
RUNNING THE BOOKS by Avi Steinberg, Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
DELANA by Tonya Bolden, Bloomsbury
MARCH ON! by Chirstine King Farris,Scholastic
SWEET DATES OF BASRA, Jessica Jiji, Morrow
BEAUTIFUL MARIA, Oscar Hijuelos, Hyperion
TWELVE DAYS OF NEW YORK, Tonya Bolden, Abrams
THOUGHTS WITHOUT CIGARETTES, Oscar Hijuelos, Gotham Books
DARK DUDE, Oscar Hijuelos, Atheneum/Simon & Schuster
THE WORKS OF FRANK O'CONNOR with an introduction ny Julian Barnes, AlfredA/ Knopf
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MOST RECENT RIGHTS SALES
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LEONARDO'S SHADOW by Christopher Grey
VOODOO HEART by Scott Snyder
FLIGHT OF THE FIZZ KING by Scott Snyder
MY BROTHER MARTIN by Christine King Farris
JOURNEY OF A JIHADIST by Fawaz Gerges
WHERE THE LINE BLEEDS by Jesmyn Ward,Agate
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OTHER LEADING RIGHTS OFFERINGS
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MEXICAN HIGH by Liza Monroy, Spiegel & Grau/Doubleday
CAPOTE IN KANSAS by Kim Powers. Carroll & Graf
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SPECIALIZED TRAINING, WORK EXPERIENCE, HONORS
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Jennifer Lyons is a contributing editor to the literary journals Fiction and The Reading Room. She has an MA in languages from Middlebury and received a Fulbright. She has been a literary agent for nineteen years and spent seventeen of them at large agency before starting her own. She regularly attends international book fairs such as the Frankfurt book faiir.
She is the daughter of the publisher Nick lyons who began as an editor at Crown and then founded The Lyons Press. Her brother is Tony Lyons, the founder of Skyhorse Publishing in New York.
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SUB-AGENTS / RIGHTS CONTACTS
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Paul Marsh, UK
Andrew Nurenberg, China
Kristin Olsen, Czech Republic
La Novelle Agence, France
Liepman AG, German language
Bella & Co. Hungary
The Deborah Harris Agency, Israel
Maro Vigivani, Italy
Japan Literary Agenvcy, inc., Japan
Korean Copyright Center, Korea
Lijnkamp Literary Agency, Netherlands
Graal, Poland
Licht and Burr, Denmark
Sandra Bruna, Spain
Film and televsion: The Lynn Pleshette Agency in Hollywood. LA
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KEY PERSONNEL
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Jennifer Lyons and Ruth Mirsky
also there are currently four interns.
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SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
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Please send a query letter first along with an SASE to new address:
151 West 19th Street 3rd floor
New York, NY 10011
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Numerous international agencies and publishers.
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