Our Clients

The Jennifer Lyons Literary Agency, LLC represents over eighty authors including five titles by Jesmyn Ward, winner of the National Book Award (Fiction) for SALVAGE THE BONES and SING, UNBURIED SING, along with seven other titles to be launched starting in the fall 2023, Oscar Hijuelos, winner of the Pulitzer Prize (Fiction) for THE MAMBO KINGS PLAY SONGS OF LOVE, all of which will be relaunched in the fall of 2023, Dale Maharidge, winner of the Pulitzer Prize (Nonfiction) for AND THEIR CHILDREN AFTER THEM, Coretta Scott King Book Award winner, Tonya Bolden, Sonia Manzano, who played Maria on Sesame Street, Dennis Covington, and Jed Perl. The Agency is constantly cultivating diverse new voices. We have two clients who are contributing cartoonists for the New Yorker, including Ken Krimstein and Stephen O’Connor. We also represent the Estates of Isaac Babel, Oscar Hijuelos, Katherine Johnson, and Roger Shattuck.

We have recently placed books with Grand Central Publishing, Pantheon, Penguin Random House, Scholastic, Blair Books, Abrams Books, Alfred A. Knopf, Hyperion, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, Henry Holt, Bloomsbury, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, and Counterpoint, HarperOne, and National Geographic. The Agency is also actively expanding into children’s books and has recently sold works by our children’s clients to Bloomsbury Kids, Scholastic, Atheneum, Abrams, Amazon Children’s, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, and Henry Holt Books for Young Readers. For foreign sales, we have partners in 15 countries.

Our complete list of clients is below. To see our list of clients in a specific category, use these links:

Fiction (Adult & Children’s)

Marjorie Agosín (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Susana Aikin (Agent: Jeff Ourvan)
Sara Alexander (Agent: Jeff Ourvan)
Estate of Isaac Babel (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Amy Quan Barry (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Bruce Bauman (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Helen Benedict (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Ross Benjamin (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Tonya Bolden (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Carmen Boullosa (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Jeremy Brown (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Kim Brown Seely (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Edward Cahill (Agent: Pamela Malpas)
Lori Carlson (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Diana R. Chambers (Agent: Pamela Malpas)
Peter Constantine (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Dennis Covington (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Estate of Edward Dahlberg (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Sandra Calder Davidson (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Michael Emmerich (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Katherine Forbes Riley (Agent: Pamela Malpas)
Susan M. Gaines (Agent: Pamela Malpas)
Elizabeth Genovise (Agent: Pamela Malpas)
Jason Grunebaum (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Estate of Oscar Hijuelos (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Jobie Hughes (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Tara Ison (Agent: Jessica Felleman)
Jessica Jiji (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Dana Johnson (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Alan Judd (Agent: Pamela Malpas)
Laura Kalpakian (Agent: Pamela Malpas)
Chin-Sun Lee (Agent: Pamela Malpas)
Eugene Lee Yang (Agent: Jessica Felleman)
Dale Maharidge (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Sonia Manzano (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Christopher Mari (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Michel Marriott (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Liza Monroy (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Heather Newton (Agent: Pamela Malpas)
Cory O’Brien (Agent: Jessica Felleman)
Stephen O’Connor (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Amanda Ortlepp (Agent: Pamela Malpas)
Kim Powers (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Uday Prakash (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Nader Salehi (Agent: Jeff Ourvan)
Frank Schaeffer (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Joshua Scher (Agent: Jeff Ourvan)
Hannah Sloane (Agent: Jessica Felleman)
James Sturz (Agent: Pamela Malpas)
Jesmyn Ward, 5 books (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Jonathan Wells (Agent: Pamela Malpas)
Estate of William Wharton (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Estate of Henry Winterfeld (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Elaine Wolf (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Charlotte Wood (Agent: Pamela Malpas)
Banana Yoshimoto (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Dugald Bruce-Lockhart (Agent: Jeff Ourvan)
Jeremy Goldstein (Agent: Jeff Ourvan)
Aliah Wright (Agent: Jeff Ourvan)

Nonfiction (Adult & Children’s)

Marjorie Agosín (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Emily Anhalt (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Tim Bakken (Agent: Jeff Ourvan)
Ross Benjamin (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Lauren Benton (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Christine Benvenuto (Agent: Pamela Malpas)
Donald Bogle (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Tonya Bolden (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Carmen Boullosa (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Frank Browning (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Lori Carlson (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Jonathan Clements
Peter Constantine (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Dennis Covington (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Estate of Edward Dahlberg (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Brother Victor-Antoine d’Avila-Latourette (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
James Delbourgo (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Des Ekin (Agent: Pamela Malpas)
Lance Esplund (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Christine King Farris (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Ronald Ferguson (Agent: Jeff Ourvan)
Estate of Frederick Franck (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Estate of Ben Gazzara (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Elke Gazzara (Agent: Jeff Ourvan)
Fawaz A. Gerges (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
John Gierach (Agent: Pamela Malpas)
Hala Gorani (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Peter Gutmann (Agent: Jeff Ourvan)
Estate of Oscar Hijuelos (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Kerrie Logan Hollihan (Agent: Jeff Ourvan)
Peter Houlahan (Agent: Jeff Ourvan)
George Johnson (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Katherine Johnson (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Eve Keller (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Caroline Kettlewell (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Stefan Klein (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Christopher Knowlton (Agent: Jeff Ourvan)
Sudha Koul (Agent: Pamela Malpas)
Ken Krimstein (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Joel Lobenthal (Agent: Jeff Ourvan)
Matthew B. Longo (Agent: Pamela Malpas)
Nick Lyons (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
John Maclean (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Dale Maharidge (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Kevin Martin (Agent: Jeff Ourvan)
Reverend Jen Miller (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Liza Monroy (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Stephen O’Connor (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Cami Ostman (Agent: Pamela Malpas)
Daniel Ostroff (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Jed Perl (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Nathan Perl-Rosenthal (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Kim Powers (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Nada Prouty (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Katrina Repka (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Craig Roach (Agent: Jeff Ourvan)
Marc Robertson (Agent: Jeff Ourvan)
Tatsha Robertson (Agent: Jeff Ourvan)
Kathy Roth-Douquet (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Frank Schaeffer (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Heather Siegel (Agent: Jeff Ourvan)
Laurence B. Siegel
Lelise Sharpe (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Estate of Roger Shattuck (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Harvey Silverglate (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Dr. Kathleen Smith (Agent: Jessica Felleman)
Avi Steinberg (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Nathan Stoltzfus (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Estate of Cory Taylor (Agent: Jeff Ourvan)
Leora Tanenbaum (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Mike Tidwell (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Jesmyn Ward, 5 books (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Angela Farris Watkins (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Wendy Welch (Agent: Pamela Malpas)
Jonathan Wells (Agent: Pamela Malpas)
Wendy Williams (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Millie Werber (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Bob White (Agent: Pamela Malpas)
Karen Wright (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Hilary Beard (Agent: Jennifer Lyons
Andrew Amelinckx (Agent: Jeff Ourvan)
Ashley Bisman (Agent: Jeff Ourvan)
Nicholas Crown (Agent: Jeff Ourvan)
Elisabeth Ervin-Blankenheim (Agent: Jeff Ourvan)
Bill Rosenblatt (Agent: Pamela Malpas)
Howard Singer (Agent: Pamela Malpas)
Kim Suk-Young (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Brandon Brown (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Ellen Cassedy (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Lauren Benton (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Ben Mattlin (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Emily Katz Anhalt (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Ban Ki-moon (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Mojgan Ghazirad (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Nan Da (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)

Children’s Books

Marjorie Agosín (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Charlie Bolden (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Tonya Bolden (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Lori Carlson (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Sandra Calder Davidson (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Roberta Flack (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Sharon G. Flake (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Katherine Johnson (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Anita Jari Kharbanda (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Christine King Farris (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Christopher Grey (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Estate of Oscar Hijuelos (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Kerrie Logan Hollihan (Agent: Jeff Ourvan)
Sonia Manzano (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
April Reynolds (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Angela Farris Watkins (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Estate of Henry Winterfeld (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Elaine Wolf (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Angela Farris Watkins (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Estate of Henry Winterfeld (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Elaine Wolf (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)

Translators

Marjorie Agosín (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Ross Benjamin (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Lori Carlson (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Peter Constantine (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Michael Emmerich (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Jason Grunebaum (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Michael Berry (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Marguerite Feitlowitz (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Karren Emmerich (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)

Art Critics

Lance Esplund (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Jed Perl (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Karen Wright (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)

Estates

Isaac Babel (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Heinrich Böll (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Edward Dahlberg (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Frederick Franck (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Estate of Oscar Hijuelos (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Frank O’Connor (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
James Purdy (Agent: Pamela Malpas)
Roger Shattuck (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Christina Stead (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
William Wharton (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Henry Winterfeld (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)
Estate of Cory Taylor (Agent: Jeff Ourvan)

Publishing Houses

The O’Brien Press/Brandon Books (Agent: Pamela Malpas)
Residenz Verlag (Agent: Jennifer Lyons)