Education University of Virginia Role Literary agent | Name Byrd Leavell Occupation Literary agent | |
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Known for representing Tucker Max, Justin Halpern, and "Weird Al" Yankovic | ||
Alma mater University of Virginia | ||
Byrd leavell
Byrd Leavell is a literary agent at United Talent Agency. Previously he was known as a named partner at the Waxman Leavell Literary Agency.
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Career
Leavell graduated from the University of Virginia and the Radcliffe Publishing Program. In 2012, he partnered with Scott Waxman to form the Waxman Leavell Literary Agency.
As a partner at the Waxman Leavell agency, he has overseen multiple New York Times bestsellers including #1 bestselling books Shit My Dad Says by Justin Halpern and I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell by Tucker Max, which has sold 2 million copies since publication. Leavell also represents Rob Elliott, whose LOL series has sold more than 2.5 million copies. He also represented the anonymous Dutch novel Diary of an Oxygen Thief. Leavell also represents Cat Marnell, a former Lucky, XoJane and Vice blogger.
In September 2017 he began his employment at UTA.
Selected clients
According to Publishers Weekly.