and where it is now on its 12th printing. This slender book has had a tremendous impact in Colombia and elsewhere for both its literary virtues and its open discussion of mental illness and suicide. World rights ex. Spanish language: Regal Hoffmann. Sold in France (Les Editions Métailié), Germany (Piper), and Holland (Ambo Anthos) Film rights: Hoffmann FLOR EDWARDS FLOR EDWARDS spent the first thirteen years of her life inside an apocalyptic cult. She lived a nomadic existence with her parents, identical twin sister, and eleven other siblings, until the cult’s abrupt disbanding in 1994 left the family stranded and penniless. Flor now has a BA in Journalism from Berkley, and an MFA from the University of California at Riverside. She is Assistant Director of the Learning Resource Center at Mount Saint Mary's University, LA. She has written a regular column for New York Magazine, as well for Vulture, Narrative.ly, The Daily Titan, and others. She has been interviewed by Vice, was the No. 2 story on Buzzfeed for a week, and has appeared on Nightline, Take Part Live, and the Drew Marshall Show. APOCALYPSE CHILD – A Life in End Times (Turner Publishing, January 2018) “All I knew about the afterlife, I learned from Father David. He was our leader who would lead us, like Moses, into the End Times.” Flor Edwards was raised in a controversial sect called The Children of God, formed in Huntington Beach, California, in the late 1960s out of the “free love” hippie era. The group shut itself out from mainstream society, believing that they were among God's chosen people and would be saved when the apocalypse came. Taught that she would be “one of God’s Martyrs” when she was 12 years old -- the apocalypse was awaited in 1993 – Flor lived a childhood of both wonder and fear as her family pursued its dream of a nomadic, communal existence in rural Thailand, where many of “Father David’s” followers had fled. When the cult dissolved after its leader’s abrupt death, Flor and her family were left adrift, without resources.
What followed was an almost overwhelming journey of reintegration, a culture shock so severe that in her teens Flor attempted to take her own life. Clinging to the hope she found in literature, she climbed her way back to academic success, ultimately being accepted to study journalism at Berkley University and finding herself in a life of scholarship, writing, and teaching. World English rights: Turner Publishing. Audio rights: Audible Film rights: Regal Hoffmann ERIC KARPELES ERIC KARPELES has worked as a painter for over thirty studying at Haverford College, Oxford University, and The New School/Parsons. He has taught studio painting at the Parsons School of Design in New York and Montclair College in New Jersey, and is a Senior Fellow at the Miłosz Institute at the Claremont Colleges. His book PAINTINGS IN PROUST (Thames & Hudson, 2008), was a “book of the year” for The New York Times, The Times of London and The Wall Street Journal. He has delivered lectures at New York University, the University of California, Berkeley; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the University of Texas, Austin; and The Center for Fiction in New York City, on literary subjects from Elizabeth Bishop to Marcel Proust, to Emily Dickinson. ALMOST NOTHING – The 20th Century Art and Life of Józef Czapski (New York Review Books, Fall 2018) ALMOST NOTHING: THE 20TH CENTURY LIFE AND ART OF JÓZEF CZAPSKIis an exploration of the remarkable life and extraordinary times of Józef Czapski, a Polish intellectual, writer, and painter who, born into the aristocracy in the late 19th century, came to live through the entire long 20th century of revolutions and World Wars. He is revered in his home country and also in France – he lived there for decades and wrote a celebrated book on Proust – and ALMOST NOTHING makes a convincing and elegant case for extending this reverence beyond those two countries. In this rich examination of Czapski’s life, Karpeles beautifully situates his subject in his historical context; the result is a book that by tracing the life of one fascinating individual also illuminates the larger
historical currents that shaped Czapski and the world this century inherited from the previous. North American rights: New York Review of Books. Translation rights: Regal Hoffmann. Sold in France (Editions Noir sur Blanc) and Poland (Noir sur Blanc) Film rights: Regal Hoffmann PHILIP KENNICOTT Philip Kennicott is the chief Art and Architecture critic of the Washington Post. Kennicott won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism and has twice been a Pulitzer Prize finalist before: in 2012, as a runner-up for the Criticism prize, and in 2000, as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing. In 2015, he was a National Magazine Award finalist for “Smuggler,” a piece also selected for the volume Best American Essays 2015. In 2006 Kennicott was an Emmy Award nominee for a web journal about democracy and oil money in Azerbaijan. Kennicott has served as an editor of several classical music magazines including Musical America and Chamber Music Magazine, as a columnist for Gramophone, and as a contributing editor at the New Republic. THE GOLDBERG VARIATIONS – A Memoir (W.W. Norton, Winter 2019) When Philip Kennicott’s mother refused to die gracefully and took a life of resentment and to the grave with her, there was nowhere for him to turn for comfort. But there was the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, in particular his celebrated Goldberg Variations, which offered not comfort but at least the hope of there being something beyond the existential void. Kennicott, the Pulitzer art and architecture critic for the Washington Post and an accomplished but ultimately frustrated amateur pianist, became obsessed with the Goldbergs, their intricate structure, luminous yet unforgiving clarity, and the many technical, intellectual, and emotional challenges they pose for anybody trying to master them.
In THE GOLDBERG VARIATIONS: A MEMOIR, Kennicott takes us deep into one of the most fascinating and demanding pieces of music ever written. As Kennicott pits himself against Bach’s masterpiece, his exploration also becomes an investigation into human striving, into the meaning of learning and knowledge, and, ultimately, into the possibility of finding solace even in the face of death. World English rights: W.W. Norton. Translation rights: Regal Hoffmann Film rights: Regal Hoffmann ARTHUR MAGIDA ARTHUR J. MAGIDA is at the University of Baltimore and visiting Professor of Journalism at Georgetown University. He has received 16 Simon Rockower Awards and is the author of The Nazi Séance: The Strange Story of the Jewish Psychic in Hitler’s Circle (Palgrave Macmillan), The Rabbi and The Hit Man (HarperCollins), and Prophet of Rage: A Life of Louis Farrakhan and His Nation (Basic Books). He has written for, amongst others, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The New York Times, and the Boston Globe, and has appeared on, among other programmes, NBC’s “Dateline,” the “CBS Early Show,” PBS’s "The MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour," ABC's "World News Tonight," and NPR's "Morning Edition". PRINCESS, PATRIOT, SUFI, SPY – The Life and Death of Noor Inayat Khan (W.W. Norton, 2019) Daughter of an Indian noble and an American rebel heiress, Noor Khan – a poet, musician, and practicing Sufi – was one of the most improbable spies England ever recruited. The eldest daughter of the eccentric and illustrious Khan family, Noor came of age in Roaring Twenties Paris, later witnessing first-hand the fall of the city under Nazi occupation. Fleeing to England on one of the last ships out of France, Noor immersed herself in the British war effort, and was soon groomed to be part of Churchill’s “secret army”, the SOE (Special Operations Executive). Flown into France in 1943, she was England’s only radio link with much of the Resistance and with Britain’s network of spies. After the Germans caught her -- the most wanted woman in France -- she was the only member of her cell who did not crack during interrogations. For 10 months,
around her, THIS CLOSE TO HAPPY is an utterly candid coming-to-terms with an illness that many share but few talk about, one that remains shrouded in stigma. World English rights: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Translation rights: Regal Hoffmann. Sold in Korea (Mujintree) Film rights: Regal Hoffmann Audrey niffenegger and Eddie campbell AUDREY NIFFENEGGER’s debut, THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE, has sold more than seven million copies, been translated into forty languages and released as a film in August 2009. HER FEARFUL SYMMETRY (Scribner, 2009) was another New York Times and international bestseller. Niffenegger is also the author of “novels-in-pictures,” THE THREE INCESTUOUS SISTERS, THE ADVENTURESS, and THE NIGHT BOOKMOBILE. She collaborated with the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden, on an original ballet entitled “Raven Girl”, with the accompanying illustrated novella published in May 2013. Niffenegger’s visual art resides in permanent collections of the Library of Congress and Harvard University’s Houghton Library. INVITING DEMONS TO TEA – A Graphic Story Collection (Abrams, 2018) Written by Audrey Niffenegger and illustrated by acclaimed graphic novelist Eddie Campbell (FROM HELL), INVITING DEMONS TO TEA is a collection of sixteen stories about love, loss, fairies, misbehavior, regret, misguided generosity, wanton wrongheadedness, cats, supernatural exterminators, girls with problems, guys who are too polite, spies, ghosts, anorexia nervosa, more cats, more fairies, and a handful of ex-boyfriends – and, ultimately, about the strangeness of humans, how we are tender and horrible and how we try very very hard to behave ourselves but somehow never quite get it right. North American rights: Abrams. UK and Translation rights: Regal Hoffmann. Sold in the UK (Jonathan Cape) Film rights: Regal Hoffmann
Review, and weekly columnist for the New York Observer and the Daily Beast. His writing has been published by every major magazine and newspaper in the US, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, and the New York Review of Books. In 2002, Siegel received the National Magazine Award for Reviews and Criticism. THE DRAW – A Memoir (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, April 2017) Hoping to make a killing in New Jersey real estate, the author’s father, Monroe Siegel, takes a draw from his employer against unearned commission. When the recession hits in the 1970s, Monroe finds himself owing a small fortune to his firm. He sinks toward divorce and bankruptcy, while Lola, Lee's mother, suffers a nervous breakdown that turns her into a different person. Shamed and enraged by his father’s fate, Lee tries to make a different life for himself. He goes to a private college in the Midwest, is forced to leave due to his father’s bankruptcy, and returns to New Jersey to work a series of menial jobs. He enrolls at a state college and then drops out to seek a better existence abroad, only to return to the United States in debt and in despair. Suddenly, a promising new life opens to him. At a price. Publishers Weekly describes THE DRAW in a starred review as “powerful, jarring […] Siegel’s strong focus on psychological depth rather than the visible remakes his familiar journey from American boy to man into something strange, disturbing, and wonderful.” English rights: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Translation rights: Regal Hoffmann Film rights: Regal Hoffmann
CHILDREN’S & YA TITLES JONATHAN AUXIER JONATHAN AUXIER grew up in Vancouver, Canada, and obtained his MFA in Dramatic Writing from Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of PETER NIMBLE AND HIS FANTASTIC EYES (Abrams, 2011) and of THE NIGHT GARDENER (Abrams, 2014), which won the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award, was a Junior Library Guild selection, an Editor’s Pick Best Book by Amazon, and a Top Ten Pick for the American Booksellers Association’s Indie Next list. SOPHIE QUIRE AND THE LAST STORYGUARD (Abrams, April 2016) Twelve-year-old Sophie Quire knows little beyond the four walls of her father’s bookshop. Sophie is a bookmender, salvaging damaged books and dreaming of a more exciting life. But when a strange boy and his even stranger enchanted companion show up with a rare and mysterious book, she is pulled into an adventure beyond anything she has ever read. The boy and his companion, Peter Nimble and Sir Tode, have been sent on a mission: to restore The Book of Who. This book, when combined with its companions When, Where, and What, will give their reader the ability to speak true magic into the world. But when the book and Sophie are kidnapped, it’s just the beginning of a series of daring rescues for Sophie, Peter and Sir Tode. North American rights: Abrams. UK & Translation rights: Regal Hoffmann. Sold in Canada (Penguin), China (Trustbridge), Poland (MAC), Thailand (Universal), and Vietnam (Huy Hoang) Film rights: Regal Hoffmann
Italy (Rizzoli). Her second novel, AUTOFOCUS, (HarperCollins, June 2016) silver medalist in the Florida Book Awards,was sold in Poland (Akapit). She blogs at . THIS TINY PERFECT WORLD (HarperCollins Children’s Books, February 2018) Penny is a girl from a small town where expectations are limited. Kids grow up learning the same trades their parents learned, and marrying their high school sweethearts. That’s okay with Penny: she’s always known she’d run her mom’s diner, and she’s happy with her boyfriend Logan, whom she’s known since 5th grade. What’s wrong with a cozy life? A small, perfect life. But Penny has a talent. Her high school drama coach thinks she could go far – and when she unexpectedly gets a scholarship to a prestigious acting summer camp, she can't pass it up. But that doesn’t mean anything’s really going to change, right? It’s just one summer. Then slowly, the people she meets at Breakthrough – including a boy called Chase – make her realize how big the world is, and how much other people have been taught to expect from it. Can she really go back to her old life, and be happy? North American rights: HarperCollins. UK & Translation rights: Regal Hoffmann Film rights: Hoffmann LIESL SHURTLIFF LIESL SHURTLIFF grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah as the fourth child in a combined family of eight. She studied Music, Dance, and Theater at Brigham Young University. Liesl currently resides in Chicago, Illinois with her husband and three children. Her website can be found at . Her previous novels are RUMP: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin (Knopf BFYR, April 2014), JACK: The True Story of Jack and the Beanstalk (Knopf BFYR, April 2015), and RED: The True Story of Little Red Riding Hood (Knopf BFYR, April 2016). They are all New York Times bestsellers. GRUMP: The True Story of the Seventh Dwarf
Stanley Finkle is not like people either. He walks with a cane, lives by himself, and is pretty much alone in the world since his mother died. When Alvie’s social worker puts pressure on her to “make one friend,” in order to convince her review board that she is a functioning adult, and grant her emancipation from the state at seventeen, Alvie is not enthusiastic. But when she comes across an abandoned phone, and gets in touch with its owner, an online correspondence begins that leads to something wholly unexpected. North American rights: HarperCollins Children’s Books. UK & Translation rights: Regal Hoffmann. Sold in Germany (Carlsen), Italy (Sperling & Kupfer), Poland (Bukowy Las), and Turkey (Marti) Film rights: Regal Hoffmann Our Clients Dr. James Adovasio Maya Arad Zan Austin Jonathan Auxier Josh Bazell Cheryl Benard Brian Berger Kate Birdsall Alexander Blakely Piedad Bonnett Conor Bowman Eddie Campbell Drew Chapman Daniel Cluchey Stuart Archer Cohen Patrick Dacey Amy Dacyczyn Gordon Dahlquist Gavan Daws Lisa Doyle Philip Dray Paul Durham Eldonna Edwards Adam Jay Epstein Andrew Ervin Erik Fassnacht Doug Fine Amy FitzHenry Nicholas Flokos Dr. Peter Fuda James W. Fuerst Faith Gardner Panio Gianopoulos Veronica Gonzalez Peña Lauren Gibaldi Greg Halpern Phil Hanrahan Indrajit Hazra Alex Heard Jennifer Michael Hecht Richard “Frosty” Hesson Carl Hoffman J. H. Huang Dennie Hughes Andrew