
The Directory of Literary Agents
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Literary Agent Directory
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Jane von Mehren
Biography
Jane von Mehren is literary agent with Aecitas Creative Management. She represents leading thinkers including paleontologist Stephen Brusatte’s The Rise and Fall of Dinosaurs, historian Susan Stryker’s Changing Gender, psychoanalyst Erica Komisar’s Being There, and fiction such as Janet Benton’s Lilli de Jong and Kevin Morris’s 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 Aevitas’s 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.
Notes
This literary agent represents:
FICTION: Crime/Detective/Police * Literary * Upmarket Fiction *
NONFICTION: Art * Business * Cultural/Social Issues * Food/Drinks * Health/Wellness * History * Journalism * Memoir * Music * Narrative * Psychology * Science * Upmarket *
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