Lane Zachary is a literary agent with Massie & McQuilkin. She is a 25-year veteran of the publishing world, received her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and her M.A. in Literature from Boston University. She began her publishing career at The Palmer and Dodge Agency (now Kneerim & Williams), where she sold the long-lost Louisa May Alcott novel, A Long, Fatal Love Chase. In 1996, she co-founded Zachary Shuster Harmsworth, where among many other distinguished authors she represented National Book Award and PEN Faulkner winner Ha Jin; Kingsley Tufts Award-winning poet Tom Sleigh; and Pulitzer Prize winner Gail Caldwell. She also has had the pleasure of working on memoirs including Marina KeeganÕs The Opposite of Loneliness and Broadway star Tovah FeldshuhÕs Lilyville. Biographies she has sold include Joshua KendallÕs The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness and the Creation of RogetÕs Thesaurus and Patti HartiganÕs August Wilson: The Kiln in Which He Was Fired. Her authors have been New York Times best sellers as well as recipients of the Rona Jaffe, Guggenheim and PEN Hemingway Awards.