Jane von Mehren is literary agent with Aevitas Creative Management. She represents leading thinkers including paleontologist Stephen BrusatteÕs The Rise and Fall of Dinosaurs, historian Susan StrykerÕs Changing Gender, psychoanalyst Erica KomisarÕs Being There, and fiction such as Janet BentonÕs Lilli de Jong and Kevin MorrisÕs All Joe Knight.
She holds a BA with honors from Vassar College. Before becoming an agent, von Mehren was an editor and publishing executive at Houghton Mifflin, Penguin, and Random House, most recently as a Senior Vice President and Publisher at Random House.
Working out of AevitasÕs New York office, von Mehren is interested in narratives in the areas of business, history, memoir, popular culture and science, books that help us live our best lives, literary, book club, and historical fiction.