Robert Gottlieb was born and raised in New York City. After graduating in 1976 from Elmira College with a Bachelor of Arts degree he began his illustrious career in the mailroom of the William Morris Agency as part of the company's Agent in Training Program. In 1977, Gottlieb became a department assistant in WMA's literary department and shortly thereafter began working with the head of the department, Owen Laster. Five years later he became a literary agent, discovered Tom Clancy in the early eighties, and in 1989 was promoted to Senior Vice President, becoming one of the youngest agents to ever head the WMA Literary Department. He was then elected to the Board of Directors and became Executive Vice President in 1992.

After 24 years at the William Morris Agency, Gottlieb started Trident Media Group, LLC in September 2000 where he now serves as Chairman. Robert Gottlieb presently represents many best-selling authors. He has consulted with the Vatican and the Russian Cultural Ministry in connection with intellectual property rights. He attends the London Book Fair and Frankfurt Book Fair each year with his team of foreign rights agents and oversees the foreign rights department as well at Trident.

Mr. Gottlieb built his stellar reputation by being the first and the most effective literary agent to brand authors. He works across all genres, in both fiction and non-fiction. His successes over the years include international bestselling authors Tom Clancy, Dean Koontz and Janet Evanovich. He continues to grow his list of authors which currently include international bestselling authors Deepak Chopra, Catherine Coulter, Elizabeth George, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Kat Martin, Mary Alice Monroe, and Karen Robards

Dale Brown
Stephen Cannell
Deepak Chopra
Catherine Coulter
Robert Ferrigno
Allan Folsom
Elizabeth George
Joan Johnston
Andrew Klavan
William Martin
Andrew Nagorski
T. Jefferson Parker
Alexey Pehov
Karen Robards
Paullina Simons

Tom Clancy's THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER
Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series
SCARLETT, the sequel to GONE WITH THE WIND

#1 Bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon with Dianna Love's THE BELADOR CODE, two books in an urban fantasy thriller series in which a league of international warriors with extraordinary abilities rise up to save mankind from supernatural terrorists, in a major deal, to Louise Burke and Lauren McKenna at Pocket Books (North American rights).

For the most up-to-date deal news, go to my Top Dealmakers page.

Foreign rights:
Claire Roberts - croberts@tridentmediagroup.com
Sylvie Rosokoff - srosokoff@tridentmediagroup.com
Jessica Olivo - jolivo@tridentmediagroup.com

Audio rights:
Libby Kellogg - ekellogg@tridentmediagroup.com

Contracts:
Sara Pearl - spearl@tridentmediagroup.com

To submit a manuscript or proposal, please send a query letter via mail or email (to gottlieb.assistant@tridentmediagroup.com) including the following:
- Paragraph about yourself; previous publishing history (if any)
- Contact information (address, phone, fax, and email address)
- For non-fiction: synopsis, along with relevant history on the subject and/or your expertise in that subject area
- For fiction: plot synopsis

Please do not query multiple agents at Trident. Please do not email attachments.