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agent, literary attorney : jim@hornfischerlit.com
Jim Hornfischer
Hornfischer Literary Management, L.P.
P.O. Box 50544, Austin, TX 78763
512-472-0011
http://hornfischerlit.com

Hornfischer Literary Management, L.P., is a literary agency with a strong track record handling a broad range of serious and commercial nonfiction. HLM’s clients include prize-winning nonfiction writers, academics and journalists.

Jim Hornfischer, HLM’s president, is one of the few agents in the country who is both a licensed attorney and a former New York trade book editor. And as the author of two nonfiction books, Ship of Ghosts (Bantam 2006) and The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors (Bantam 2004), he sees the business from the author's point of view as well. This combination of experience makes him an effective advocate as well as a perceptive editorial adviser for his clients.

In fifteen years as an agent, Hornfischer has handled eight New York Times bestsellers (including two #1’s) and several finalists for major book prizes. The company enjoys strong relationships with the leading New York publishing companies.

years experience: 19
GENRES & SPECIALTIES
Biography, Business/investing/finance, History, Health, Lifestyle, Sports, African-American, Science, Military history, Current affairs, Politics
TRADE REFERENCES
"I think Jim Hornfischer is a dream agent and I cannot praise him too highly. He turned my career around....

"Jim is as trustworthy as the day is long. He thinks along with you. Thinks on your behalf.”

--Ron Powers, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of MARK TWAIN: A LIFE.

LEADING CLIENTS
H. W. Brands, Ron Powers, Mary Beth Rogers, Jan Jarboe Russell, Lewis L. Gould, Thomas Sullivan, Don Graham, John Mosier, Patrick Beach, James Moore, George Friedman, Theo Padnos, "Austin City Limits," Gary M. Lavergne, Catherine & Joseph Garcia-Prats, Donald A. Davis.
BEST-KNOWN PROJECTS
ANDREW JACKSON: His Life and Times by H. W. Brands (Doubleday)

MARK TWAIN: A Life by Ron Powers (Free Press)

SHOOTER: The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper by Gunnery Sgt. Jack Coughlin, USMC, and Capt. Casey Kuhlman, USMC-R, with Donald A. Davis (St. Martin's)

FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS by James Bradley with Ron Powers (Bantam)

THE FIRST AMERICAN: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin by H. W. Brands (Doubleday)

AMERICA'S SECRET WAR by George Friedman (Doubleday)

MOST RECENT SALES/ FORTHCOMING BOOKS
HOW TO BREAK A TERRORIST: Inside the Hunt that Led to the Take Down of the Deadliest Man in Iraq by Matthew Alexander with John Bruning (Free Press 2008)

AMERICAN PESTS: The Losing War on Insects, from Colonial Times to DDT by James E. McWilliams (Columbia Univ. Press 2008)

IT'S NOT WHAT YOU SELL, IT'S WHAT YOU STAND FOR by Roy Spence and Haley Rushing (Portfolio 2008)

GHOST: CONFESSIONS OF A COUNTERTERRORISM AGENT (Random House 2008)

ROSE BOWL DREAMS: A Memoir of Faith, Family and Football (Thomas Dunne Books 2008)

LAST FLAG DOWN by John Baldwin and Ron Powers (Crown 2007)

FEEDING THE FIRE: The Lost History and Uncertain Future of Mankind's Energy Addiction by Mark Eberhart (Harmony 2007)

HOUSE TO HOUSE by David Bellavia with John Bruning (Free Press 2007)

THE NEXT 100 YEARS: A FORECAST FOR THE 21ST CENTURY by George Friedman (Doubleday 2009)

SPECIALIZED TRAINING, WORK EXPERIENCE, HONORS
Formerly an editor at HarperCollins and McGraw-Hill. J.D., University of Texas School of Law; B.A. (Phi Beta Kappa), Colgate University
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Please submit a brief e-mail query to queries@hornfischerlit.com.

HLM does not accept unsolicited fiction submissions.

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