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Elias Altman

Massie & McQuilkinAccepting SubmissionsQuery Method(s): Email >
Work 27 West 20th Street Suite 305 New York New York 10011 USAWebsite: http://www.mmqlit.com/

Biography

Elias Altman is a literary agent with Massie & McQuilkin. He was raised in Vermont, attended Concord Academy, interned at the Huffington Post in 2006, and graduated from the University of Vermont magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in art history and English in 2007. Having co-founded the still-active student newspaper, The Water Tower, during his senior year, Altman moved to New York City to work for one of his heroes, Lewis Lapham. Altman served as a senior editor at LaphamÕs Quarterly for seven years, working on the magazineÕs first thirty issues and editing anthologized essays by writers like Anne Fadiman, Pico Iyer, Simon Winchester, and Michael Wood. In 2015 he became an agent at Zachary Shuster Harmsworth (now Aevitas Creative Management) and three years later he joined Massie & McQuilkin. Altman has written criticism and personal essays for, among other publications, the Columbia Journalism Review, the Nation, the Georgia Review, and Vogue. As an agent Altman specializes in sharp, moving narratives featuring psychological insight, timeless themes, and strong characters, whether in reported non-fiction, popular history, memoir, or literary fiction.

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Accepting Submissions |General Fiction | Literary Fiction |General Nonfiction | History | Journalism | Lifestyle | Memoir | Narrative Nonfiction | Psychology |

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