- Melanie Jackson
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Melanie Jackson is a leading literary agent. She founded the highly respected Melanie Jackson Agency. Among the many awards won by her clients are: the Nobel Prize in Literature, four Pulitzer Prizes, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Biography
Melanie Jackson is a great-granddaughter of Theodore Roosevelt and a granddaughter of Robert H. Jackson, U.S. Supreme Court Justice and Nuremberg trials prosecutor.
In the early 1990s, Jackson married one of her authors, Thomas Pynchon. They have a son, Jackson.
Partial List of Clients
- Thomas Pynchon, National Book Award winner.
- Wole Soyinka, Nobel Prize in Literature winner.
- Lorrie Moore
- Nicole Krauss
- Rick Moody
- Cynthia Ozick
- Alison Lurie, Pulitzer prize winner.
- A. S. Byatt
- Nicholson Baker
- Sapphire
- Steve Erickson
- Dana Spiotta
- Athol Fugard
- Miguel Syjuco, Man Asian Literary Prize winner.
- Amanda Filipacchi
- Eva Hoffman
- Ron Chernow, 2011 Pulitzer prize winner.
- David Amsden
- Howard Norman
- Steve Coll, Pulitzer prize winner.
- Tim Page, Pulitzer prize winner.
- John Burnside
- Rachel Johnson
- Peter Prince
- Kate Long
- Katha Pollitt, National Book Critics Circle Award winner.
- Nick McDonell
- Steven Wright
References
Categories:- Literary agents
- Living people
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