Esmond Harmsworth is a literary agent and partner with Aevitas Creative Management. He has represented the #1 Wall Street Journal business bestseller and New York Times bestseller Breakthrough: Secrets of AmericaÕs Fastest Growing Companies by Keith McFarland; Amanda RipleyÕs New York Times bestseller The Smartest Kids in the WorldÑAnd How They Got That Way; and PEN/Faulkner winner Sabina Murray, author of The Caprices, A CarnivoreÕs Inquiry, and Valiant Gentlemen.
Born in London, Harmsworth was educated in England before graduating magna cum laude from Brown University and cum laude from Harvard Law School. He was a founding partner of the Zachary Shuster Harmsworth Literary Agency which merged with Kuhn Projects to form Aevitas.
Based in Boston, Harmsworth represents serious nonfiction books on topics such as politics, psychology, culture, and society. For fiction, he represents literary fiction, mystery and crime, popular (mainstream) fiction, and young adult and middle grade fiction.