Noah Lukeman
Noah Lukeman is author of the bestselling The
First Five Pages: A Writer’s Guide to Staying out of the Rejection Pile
(Simon & Schuster, 1999), already part of the curriculum in many writing
programs. He is also author of the the bestselling The
Plot Thickens: 8 Ways to Bring Fiction to Life (St. Martins Press,
2002), a BookSense 76 Selection, a Publishers Weekly Daily pick, and a
selection of the Writers Digest Book Club. He
is also author of A Dash of Style: The Art and Mastery of Punctuation (WW
Norton in the U.S. and Oxford University Press in the U.K., 2006), a selection
of the Writers Digest Book Club, an excerpt of which was the #1 Bestselling
Short on Amazon. He has
also worked as a collaborator, and is co-author, with Lieutenant General Michael
“Rifle” DeLong, USMC, Ret., of Inside
CentCom (Regnery, 2004), a Main Selection of the Military Book Club. His
Op-Ed pieces (with General DeLong) have been published in The Wall Street
Journal and The New York Times. He has also contributed to Poets
& Writers, Writers Digest, The Writer, AWP Chronicle and The
Writers Market, and has been anthologized in The Practical Writer
(Viking, 2004). Foreign editions of his books have been published in the UK and
in Portugese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Indonesian.
Noah Lukeman
is also President of Lukeman Literary
Management Ltd, a New York based literary agency, which he founded in 1996.
His clients include winners of the Pulitzer Prize, American Book Award, Pushcart
Prize and O. Henry Award, finalists for the National Book Award, Edgar Award,
Pacific Rim Prize, multiple New York Times bestsellers, national
journalists, major celebrities, and faculty of universities ranging from Harvard
to Stanford. He has worked as a Manager in the New York office of Artists
Management Group, Michael Ovitz’ multi-talent management company, and has
worked for another New York literary agency. Prior to becoming an agent he
worked on the editorial side of several major publishers, including William
Morrow and Farrar, Straus, Giroux, and as editor of a literary magazine.
He has been a
guest speaker on the subjects of writing and publishing at numerous forums,
including the Wallace Stegner writing program at Stanford University and the
Writers Digest Conference at BookExpo America. He currently teaches a course
online at Writers University. He
earned his B.A. with High Honors in English and Creative Writing from Brandeis
University, cum laude.
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