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some zachary shuster harmsworth clients

  • Fouad Ajami, an internationally renowned scholar and writer, is Director of the Middle East Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University, a recipient of a MacArthur genius grant, and author, most recently, of The Foreigner's Gift: The Americans, the Arabs, and the Iraqis (Free Press, 2006).
  • Louisa May Alcott, beloved author of Little Women, wrote her first novel, The Inheritance, when she was seventeen. The discovery and publication of the lost manuscript was a literary cause célèbre and became the basis for a CBS Sunday Night Movie. Zachary Shuster Harmsworth represents Louisa May Alcott's literary estate.
  • Julia Angwin, staff reporter and technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal, has written Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America, forthcoming from Random House.
  • Dave Balter is a pioneer in the world of word-of-mouth marketing, the founder and CEO of bzzagent.com and author of Grapevine: The New Art of Word-of-Mouth Marketing (Penguin/Portfolio 2006).
  • Thomas P. M. Barnett is a highly sought after military strategist, a contributor to Esquire magazine and author of the New York Times bestseller, The Pentagon's New Map (Putnam, 2004) as well as Blueprint for Action (Putnam 2005) and the forthcoming Great Powers (Putnam 2009).
  • Dan Barry is a noted New York Times columnist and former Providence Journal reporter, joint recipient, with his Providence Journal colleagues, of the Pulitzer Prize, and author of Pull Me Up (Norton) a memoir of his childhood and family, and his battle with cancer.
  • Dr. Carolyn Bernstein, a Harvard-trained neurologist and Director of the Women's Headache Center at Harvard's Cambridge Health Alliance, is author of the forthcoming, The Migraine Brain (Free Press).
  • Jedediah Berry is the author of the novel The Manual of Detection (Penguin Press).
  • Damon Beyer is a partner at Katzenbach Partners who consults to senior managers on issues of business strategy, operations effectiveness, leadership and organizational performance. He is co-author of the forthcoming The Right Fight (Collins).
  • Michael Byers is the award-winning author of the story collection The Coast of Good Intentions—a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award and a B&N Discover Great New Writers pick—and the novel Long for This World (both Houghton Mifflin). A recipient of the prestigious Sue Kaufman Award from the American Academy of Arts and Science, his new novel, Percival's Planet, is about the discovery of Pluto in 1929 (Holt 2010).
  • Gail Caldwell is the Pulitzer-prize-winning chief book critic for the Boston Globe and author of A Strong West Wind (Random House).
  • Brian Christian is the author of The Most Human Human (Doubleday 2011), exploring the competitive world of artificial intelligence through the controversial Turing Test. He holds degrees in computer science and philosophy of mind, and his poetry has been selected for The Best New Poets 2008.
  • Michael Collier is the director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and the author of five books of poetry, including The Ledge and Dark Wild Realm (both Houghton Mifflin). He has been a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
  • Ellen Cooney's short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Glimmer Train and The Literary Review. She is the author of six novels including A Private Hotel for Gentle Ladies (Pantheon) and Lambrusco (Pantheon).
  • Michael Covel is a legendary expert on stock trading, as well as the author of Trend Following (Financial Times/Prentice Hall) and The Complete Turtletrader (Collins, 2007).
  • Benoit Denizet-Lewis is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and author of America Anonymous: Eight Addicts in Search of a Life, forthcoming from Simon & Schuster.
  • Robert Emmons is an expert on the psychology of emotions and the psychology of religion. He is a professor at the University of California/Davis and author of Thanks: How the New Science of Gratitude Can Make You Happier (Houghton Mifflin).
  • Leslie Epstein is an internationally acclaimed writer and winner of Guggenheim, Fulbright and Rhodes scholarships. His most recently published book, San Remo Drive (Handsel/The Other Press, 2003), was noted by the Los Angeles Times as one of the best Hollywood novels ever written.
  • David France is a veteran investigative journalist who has written for Newsweek, The New York Times, and GQ, and is the author of Our Fathers: The Secret Life of the Catholic Church (Broadway Books).
  • Chris Gardner is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, The Pursuit of Happyness (Amistad/HarperCollins, 2006). His life story was the basis of the 2006 hit film, The Pursuit of Happyness (Sony Pictures), starring Will Smith in an Academy Award nominated performance.
  • Charles Gasparino is a veteran business reporter and author of two books, King of the Club: Richard Grasso and the Survival of the New York Stock Exchange (Collins, 2007), and Blood on the Street: The Sensational Inside Story of How Wall Street Analysts Duped A Generation of Investors (Wall Street Journal Books/Free Press).
  • Ronnie Greene is a prize-winning investigative journalist for the Miami Herald and author of the forthcoming narrative nonfiction book, Night Fire: Big Oil, Poison Air and Margie Richard’s Fight to Save Her Town (Amistad/HarperCollins).
  • James Hirsch is a former staff writer of The Wall Street Journal and author of, among other titles, the New York Times bestseller, Hurricane: The Miraculous Journey of Rubin Carter (Houghton Mifflin) and the recently published Cheating Destiny (Houghton Mifflin). He is currently writing a fully-authorized biography of baseball icon Willie Mays for Scribner's.
  • Sandeep Jauhar, MD, Ph.D., is the director of the Heart Failure Program at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, a frequent contributor to The New York Times and The New England Journal of Medicine, and author of the acclaimed memoir, Intern: A Doctor's Initiation (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008).
  • Anita Jain is the author of the acclaimed memoir Marrying Anita (Bloomsbury USA, 2008).
  • Ha Jin, an internationally acclaimed and bestselling novelist, won the National Book Award for his novel, Waiting (Pantheon, 1999) and was awarded the PEN/Faulkner award for War Trash (Pantheon, 2004).
  • Peter de Jonge, co-author of two of James Patterson's most best-selling thrillers ever, is currently penning his own novel, Shadows Still Remain (forthcoming from HarperCollins).
  • Saj-nicole Joni is an internationally known business strategist and thinking partner to senior executives and high-potential leaders and CEO of Cambridge International Group. Her books include The Third Opinion (Portfolio) and The Right Fight (Collins, forthcoming).
  • Elizabeth Kendall writes for The New Yorker, Vogue and The New York Times. Her books include American Daughter (Random House) and Autobiography of a Wardrobe (Pantheon, 2008).
  • Joshua Kendall writes for The Boston Globe and BusinessWeek. He is the author of The Man Who Made Lists (Putnam, 2008), a biography of Peter Mark Roget.
  • David Kirby is a contributor to The New York Times and author of the New York Times bestselling book, Evidence of Harm: Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic: A Medical Controversy (St. Martin's Press, 2005).
  • Christopher Mason writes frequently about art, design, and society for New York magazine and The New York Times and is the author of The Art of the Steal (Putnam's, 2004).
  • Dr. Patricia McConnell is an international authority on dogs, a co-host of Calling All Pets syndicated on National Public Radio and the author, most recently, of For the Love of a Dog (Ballantine, 2006).
  • Before founding the consulting firm McFarland Strategy Partners, Keith McFarland was the Dean of Pepperdine Business School and the CEO of several successful startup companies. He is the author of #1 Wall Street Journal business bestseller and the New York Times bestseller The Breakthrough Company: How Everyday Companies Become Extraordinary Performers.
  • Founder of AGNI, Askold Melnyczuk is the author of What Is Told (Faber & Faber), Ambassador of the Dead (Counterpoint) and The House of Widows (Graywolf 2008).
  • Lisa Mundy, staff reporter for The Washington Post Magazine, is the author of the award-winning Everything Conceivable: How the Science of Assisted Reproduction is Changing Our World (Knopf, 2008).
  • Sabina Murray, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for the short story collection The Caprices, is the author of Forgery (Grove/Atlantic, 2007).
  • Susan Nolen-Hoeksema is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan and noted author of, among other titles, Women Who Think Too Much (Henry Holt, 2003).
  • Deval L. Patrick, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is currently writing an inspirational book entitled A Reason to Believe: Lessons on Leadership and Life (forthcoming from Doubleday).
  • William Pollack is a Harvard professor, co-director of the Center for Men at McLean Hospital and author of the major New York Times bestseller Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood (Random House).
  • Ladette Randolph is the Editor-in-Chief of Ploughshares magazine and the author of the novel A Sandhills Ballad (University of New Mexico Press) and the story collection This Is Not the Tropics. She has won a Pushcart Prize and appeared in The Best New American Voices.
  • Sara Roahen is the author of Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table (W. W. Norton).
  • Tracy Ross, former Senior Editor of Backpacker Magazine and winner of the 2008 National Magazine Award and the 2008 Folio Magazine Award, is the author of the forthcoming memoir, The Source of All Things (Free Press, 2011). Her work has appeared in two prestigious collected volumes, The Best American Sports Writing (2009) and The Best American Magazine Writing (2009).
  • David Rothkopf was Deputy Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade in the Clinton administration and is currently a visiting scholar with the Carnegie Endowment. He is the author of Running The World (PublicAffairs, 2004) and Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008).
  • Hazel Rowley is the highly acclaimed author of numerous books including Tête à Tête: The Tumultuous Lives & Loves of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre (HarperCollins).
  • R. Keith Sawyer is one of the country's leading experts on the science of creativity and innovation. He is the author of numerous books, the most recent of which is Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration (Basic Books, 2007).
  • Alan Shapiro, a recipient of the prestigious $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, is the author of nine books of poetry, including Tantalus in Love and Old War (Houghton Mifflin), as well as two award-winning memoirs, The Last Happy Occasion and Vigil (University of Chicago Press). His first novel, Broadway Baby, is forthcoming (Algonquin).
  • Anne E. Simon, the official scientific consultant to Chris Carter, producer of The X-Files and a professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, is the author of The Real Science Behind The X-Files: Microbes, Meteorites and Mutants (Simon & Schuster, 1999).
  • Tom Sleigh is the recipient of the prestigious $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award as well as the Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the author of seven poetry collections including Space Walk (Houghton Mifflin) and Far Side of the Earth (Houghton Mifflin).
  • Cheryl Strayed, the author of the debut novel Torch (Houghton Mifflin), was selected twice for The Best American Essays and also appeared in The Best New American Voices. Her new book is a memoir, Wild, tracking her solo journey through the extreme terrain of the Pacific Crest Trail (Knopf 2011).
  • Donna VanLiere is the author of the New York Times bestselling Christmas Hope series (over three million in print and the basis for two highly-rated CBS Sunday Night Movies), as well as the author of the New York Times bestselling novel The Angels of Morgan Hill (St. Martin's Press, 2006) and the forthcoming memoir Finding Grace (St. Martin's Press, 2009).
  • Jonathan Van Meter is a contributing editor at Vogue magazine and author of the acclaimed book, The Last Good Time (Crown Publishing Group).
  • Tony Wagner has served as Co-Director of the Change Leadership Group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education since its inception in 2000. He is the author of The Global Achievement Gap (Basic Books, 2008).
  • Lis Wiehl, legal correspondent for Fox News, is the author, with veteran novelist April Henry, of the Faith and Consequences thriller series, forthcoming from Thomas Nelson.
  • Mary Ann Winkowski, paranormal investigator and consultant to CBS's Ghost Whisperer, is author of When Ghosts Speak (Grand Central/Hachette, 2007).