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:

  • 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

  • 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

  • Todd Gitlin, author of The '60s, and the just published Media Unlimited, and writer for major magazines and newspapers including The New York Times

  • 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

  • Christopher Andersen, the New York Times best-selling author of The Day Diana Died, Jack and Jackie, The Day John Died, and Madonna

  • Colette Dowling, author of the New York Times bestseller, The Cinderella Complex

  • 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

  • Riane Eisler, author of the classic The Chalice and The Blade

  • Brenda Maddox, author of the biographies Nora, Yeats' Ghosts, and the forthcoming Rosalind Franklin: Dark Lady of DNA.

Ellen Levine’s fiction writers include:

  • Garrison Keillor of Lake Wobegon fame

  • Michael Ondaatje, author of the best-selling novels The English Patient and Anil's Ghost

  • Russell Banks, whose novels include Cloudsplitter, Affliction, and The Sweet Hereafter, the latter two of which were adapted as major motion pictures

  • Cristina Garcia, author of Dreaming in Cuban, a National Book Award nominee

  • Larry Heinemann, author of Paco's Story, a National Book Award winner

  • Joseph Garber, author of the New York Times best-selling thriller, Vertical Run

  • Jane Heller, best-selling author of contemporary woman's fiction including Name Dropping, Female Intelligence, and the recently published The Secret Ingredient

  • Marilynne Robinson, author of Housekeeping, which was also a motion picture starring Christine Lahti, and Mother Country, a National Book Award nominee

  • 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

  • Mary Morris, novelist and memoirist whose titles include Acts of God and Nothing to Declare

  • mystery writer Amanda Cross

  • Justin Cronin, winner of the P.E.N. Hemmingway Award for his novel-in-stories, Mary and O’Neil

  • Jane Urquhart, Governor General’s Award winner whose books include Away and The Stone Carvers

  • 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.

  • 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

Submitting to Ellen Levine

Ellen Levine represents fiction, non-fiction, and children’s literature.  Please send all queries by regular mail.

 

 

 

 

Ellen Levine Literary Agency, Inc. 41 Madison Avenue, 36th Floor  New York, NY 10010  ph 212.262.4849 fx 212.725.4501