Russell & Volkening was founded in 1940 by Diarmuid Russell and Henry Volkening. They were responsible for discovering and representing some of the most noted writers in the history of American publishing, including Eudora Welty, Bernard Malamud, Anne Tyler, George Plimpton, Barbara Tuchman, and South African Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer. In 1972, they sold their agency to Timothy Seldes, formerly the Managing Editor of Doubleday, Vice President of Macmillan, and Assistant Publisher of The New York Post. Seldes continued the tradition with Annie Dillard, Tony Award winner Ntozake Shange, Jim Lehrer, and Marian Wright Edelman (President of the Children's Defense Fund), among many others. We handle fiction, non-fiction and children's books, focusing on quality of writing and literary merit across the board.
President
Timothy Seldes tseldes@randvinc.comChildren's and Young Adult Agent
Carrie HanniganAgent
Jesseca SalkyInterests: Literary fiction, narrative non-fiction, memoir, creative non-fiction having to do with food, beauty, business, but nothing prescriptive or genre.
Agent
Joy Azmitia joy@randvinc.comInterests: Chick-lit, multicultural fiction, romance, humor, and non-fiction in the areas of travel, pop-culture, and philosophy.
Agent
Josh Getzler josh@randvinc.com
Interests: mysteries, thrillers, literary and commercial fiction, young adult and middle grade (particularly adventures and mysteries for boys). Email Queries Only, please!
Cover letter + first five pages of the manuscript will do the trick.
For permission inquiries, please contact
Jamie@randvinc.com
For foreign rights inquiries, please contact Jesseca@randvinc.com
For film/tv rights questions, please contact josh@randvinc.com
Congratulations to our best-selling and award-winning clients:
- Anne Tyler: Noah’s Compass (Knopf)—New York Times Best Seller (Entered at #3 1/24/10).
- Blaize Clement: Catsitter on a Hot Tin Roof (Minotaur)—2010 Mary Higgins Clark Award Nominee.
- Gerald Elias: Devil’s Trill (Minotaur)—Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers pick, Holiday 2009.
- Joshua Gaylord: Hummingbirds (HarperCollins): Indie Choice Honorable Mention, November, 2009.
- Robert Richardson: First We Read, Then We Write (University of Iowa Press)—Choice Outstanding Title, 2009.
- Ken Wells: The Good Pirates of the Forgotten Bayous: Fighting to Save a Way of Life in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina (Yale University Press)—2008 Harry Chapin Media Award, Books.
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| Ballinger, Bill Becker, Stephen Berriault, Gina Blake, Peter Brennan, Maeve Coleman, Hila Engel, Marian Enright, Elizabeth Farwell, Byron Fearing, Kenneth Fossey, Dian Heckscher, August John Cort, John Kaufman, Sue Liebling, A.J. Mack, Dr. John MacKenzie, Donald Malamud, Bernard Modarressi, Taghi Moore, Bishop Paul Morris, Donald Morris, Wright Patton, Frances Gray Pawel, Ernst Petry, Ann Plimpton, George Porter, Eliot Russell, George (AE) Sarton, May Seldes, George Seldes, Gilbert Stafford, Jean Taylor, Peter Truitt, Anne Tuchman, Barbara Watts, Alan W. Welty, Eudora West, Jessamyn |
Al-Mutawa, Naif |
Adamson III, Joseph |
Betts, Doris |