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Ellen Levine
Ellen Levine began her career with two
publishers: New American Library and Harper & Row (now HarperCollins). She
then worked at two other agencies before forming the Ellen Levine Literary
Agency in 1980.
Ellen has appeared on numerous publishing panels
and spoken at many writer's conferences.
She is currently Chair of the Contracts Committee
of the Association of Authors' Representatives.
Authors
Ellen Levine’s nonfiction
clients include:
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Mark Hertsgaard, journalist and author of Earth Odyssey and
the forthcoming The Eagle's Shadow, whose work has appeared in The New
Yorker, The New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, Vanity Fair,
and Outside
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Alex Shoumatoff, former staff writer for The New Yorker
and author of renowned books including Russian Blood, African Madness,
and recently Legends of the American Desert
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Todd Gitlin, author
of The '60s, and the just published Media Unlimited, and writer
for major magazines and newspapers including The New York Times
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John
Sack, author of M and Company C and of The Dragonhead, a
book about the Chinese mafia and a journalist whose work has
appeared over the years in The New Yorker, Esquire, and
GQ
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Christopher Andersen, the New York Times best-selling author of
The Day Diana Died, Jack and Jackie, The Day John Died, and
Madonna
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Colette Dowling, author of the
New York Times bestseller, The Cinderella Complex
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Sheila Weller, a
journalist whose work has appeared in Vanity Fair, New York Magazine and the
author of several New York Times bestsellers including Raging Heart
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Riane Eisler, author of the classic The Chalice and The Blade
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Brenda
Maddox, author of the biographies Nora, Yeats' Ghosts, and the
forthcoming Rosalind Franklin: Dark Lady of DNA.
Ellen
Levine’s fiction writers include:
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Garrison Keillor of Lake Wobegon
fame
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Michael Ondaatje, author of the best-selling novels The English Patient
and Anil's Ghost
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Russell Banks, whose novels include
Cloudsplitter, Affliction, and The Sweet Hereafter, the latter
two of which were adapted as major motion pictures
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Cristina Garcia, author of
Dreaming in Cuban, a National Book Award nominee
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Larry Heinemann, author
of Paco's Story, a National Book Award winner
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Joseph Garber, author of
the New York Times best-selling thriller, Vertical Run
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Jane Heller,
best-selling author of contemporary woman's fiction including Name Dropping,
Female Intelligence, and the recently published The Secret Ingredient
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Marilynne Robinson, author of Housekeeping, which was also a motion
picture starring Christine Lahti, and Mother Country, a National Book
Award nominee
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Dan Woodrell, whose novel Woe to Live On was sold
as a major motion picture directed by Ang Lee entitled “Ride with the Devil,” and whose recent novel, The Death Of Sweet
Mister, received great critical acclaim; C.S. Godshalk, author of
Kalimantaan, winner of the L.A. Times Best First Novel Prize
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Mary Morris, novelist and memoirist
whose titles include Acts of God and Nothing to Declare
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mystery
writer Amanda Cross
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Justin Cronin, winner of the P.E.N. Hemmingway Award for
his novel-in-stories, Mary and O’Neil
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Jane Urquhart, Governor General’s Award
winner whose books include Away and The Stone Carvers
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Louis Sachar, winner of the National Book Award and Newbery Award for his novel for
young people, Holes, which is soon to be a major motion picture starring
Sigourney Weaver and Jon Voight.
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Naeem Murr,
author of the New York Times Notable Book and critically acclaimed The Boy, a
former Stegner and Scowcroft Fellow at Stanford University and winner of the
Raymond Carver Prize for Poetry and author of the forthcoming The King of
Infinite Space
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Levine represents fiction, non-fiction, and children’s literature. Please
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