As editorial director at the University of Chicago Press, I head our Books Division's acquisitions department of twelve editors, who are profiled here: http://press.uchicago.edu/infoServices/editorialstaff.html. I myself acquire both trade and scholarly books on literature, religion, biography, photography, and related areas of the humanities. I enjoy working with agents representing serious non-fiction by writers who push boundaries and change minds.

Bengt Jangfeldt, MAYAKOVSKY: A LIFE
Victor Brombert, MUSINGS ON MORTALITY: FROM TOLSTOY TO PRIMO LEVI
C. K. Williams, IN TIME: POETS, POEMS, AND THE REST
Don Share and Christian Wiman, eds., THE OPEN DOOR: ONE HUNDRED POEMS, ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF "POETRY" MAGAZINE
Stephen Greenblatt, SHAKESPEARE'S FREEDOM
Shirley Hazzard and Francis Steegmuller, THE ANCIENT SHORE: DISPATCHES FROM NAPLES
Susie Linfield, THE CRUEL RADIANCE: PHOTOGRAPHY AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE
Ha Jin, THE WRITER AS MIGRANT
Adrian Johns: PIRACY: THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY WARS FROM GUTENBERG TO GATES
David Bromwich, SKEPTICAL MUSIC: ESSAYS ON MODERN POETRY
Franco Ferrucci, THE LIFE OF GOD (AS TOLD BY HIMSELF)
J. M. Coetzee, GIVING OFFENSE: ESSAYS ON CENSORSHIP
Lawrence Weschler, BOGGS: A COMEDY OF VALUES
Richard Lanham, THE ELECTRONIC WORD
J. M. G. Le Clézio, THE MEXICAN DREAM
Sara Suleri, MEATLESS DAYS

Laura Dassow Walls, HENRY DAVID THOREAU: A LIFE
Alice Kaplan, FRENCH LESSONS, DREAMING IN FRENCH, and LOOKING FOR THE STRANGER
Ashley Gilbertson, BEDROOMS OF THE FALLEN and WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT
Norman Maclean, YOUNG MEN AND FIRE

Barbara J. King, BECOMING AN ANIMAL: A JOURNEY OF EMPATHY
Samuel Hynes, ON WAR AND WRITING
William P. Germano, REVISION: THE ONLY WRITING THAT COUNTS
Laura Dassow Walls, HENRY DAVID THOREAU: A LIFE
Amitav Ghosh, THE GREAT DERANGEMENT
Lawrence Lessig, AMERICA COMPROMISED
Alice Kaplan, LOOKING FOR THE STRANGER