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Eric Simonoff

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Nationality
  
American

Education
  
Princeton University

Role
  
Literary agent

Name
  
Eric Simonoff

Occupation
  
Literary agent


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Full Name
  
Eric Matthew David Simonoff

Born
  
July 21, 1967 (
1967-07-21
)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.

Children
  
Henry Simonoff (1999) Lucy Simonoff (2002)

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Eric Matthew David Simonoff (born July 21, 1967) is a literary agent at William Morris Endeavor.

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Biography

Eric Simonoff (Russian: Эрик Симонов) was born in Philadelphia on July 21, 1967. He spent most of his childhood in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. He graduated from Princeton University in 1989, with a degree in Classics. He began his publishing career at W.W. Norton as an editorial assistant. He joined Janklow & Nesbit in 1991 and rose to the position of co-director. He left Janklow & Nesbit for William Morris Endeavor in 2009. His switch in agencies was considered a major event in the publishing industry. more than a dozen New York Times bestselling authors.

List of clients

  • Jonathan Lethem
  • Philipp Meyer, author of The Son
  • Douglas Preston, author of The Monster of Florence: A True Story
  • Vikram Chandra
  • Lincoln Child
  • Andrew Davidson
  • James Frey, controversial author of A Million Little Pieces.
  • Bob Greene
  • Edward P. Jones, Pulitzer prize winner.
  • Jhumpa Lahiri, Pulitzer prize winner.
  • Alexander Maksik, novelist
  • Thisbe Nissen
  • Bill O'Reilly, conservative commentator.
  • Trenton Lee Stewart
  • Walter Kirn
  • Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer prize winner.
  • Danielle Trussoni
  • Nam Le
  • The New Yorker Magazine
  • Phil Klay, author of Redeployment
  • Chris Robinson and Gavin Kovite, authors of War of the Encyclopaedists
  • Yaa Gyasi
  • References

    Eric Simonoff Wikipedia