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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Noah Lukeman is President of Lukeman Literary Management Ltd, 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, and Pacific Rim prize, multiple New York Times bestsellers, national journalists, major celebrities, and faculty of universities ranging from Harvard to Stanford. He has also worked in the New York office of a multi-talent management company, where he represented many New York Times Bestsellers, and, prior to founding his agency, he also worked for another New York literary agency. Prior to becoming an agent he worked in the editorial departments of several publishers, including William Morrow, Delphinium Books and Farrar, Straus, Giroux, and as editor of a literary magazine. He was creator of PrePub.com, one of the first publishing rights websites, which eventually became the "Booktracker" division of Inside.com. As a literary agent, he has been written up in media ranging from The New York Times to Variety (Page 1). |
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Noah Lukeman is also an accomplished author. His best-selling The First Five Pages: A Writer’s Guide to Staying out of the Rejection Pile (Simon & Schuster, 1999), was a selection of many of Writer’s Digest 101 Best Websites for Writers and is now part of the curriculum in many universities. His The Plot Thickens: 8 Ways to Bring Fiction to Life (St. Martins Press, 2002) was a National Bestseller, a BookSense 76 Selection, a Publishers Weekly Daily pick, a selection of the Writers Digest Book Club, and a selection of many of Writer’s Digest 101 Best Websites for Writers. His A Dash of Style: The Art and Mastery of Punctuation (W.W. Norton, 2006 and Oxford University Press in the UK, 2007) was critically-acclaimed, a selection of the Writers Digest Book Club, a selection of the Forbes Book Club and profiled on NPR, and is now part of the curriculum in over 50 universities and writing programs. His e-book How to Write a Great Query Letter, which he gives away for free as a way of giving back to the writing community, has been the #1 Bestselling title on Amazon Shorts for many months. To help aspiring authors, he has also made available free chapters from his other books at www.noahlukeman.com Noah
has also worked as a collaborator, and is co-author, with Lieutenant
General Michael “Rifle” Delong, USMC, Ret., of Inside Centcom
(Regnery, 2005), a selection of the Military Book Club. His Op-Eds
co-authored with General Delong appeared in the Sunday New York Times,
The Wall Street Journal and The Dallas Morning News. He has
contributed articles about the publishing industry and the craft of
writing to several magazines, including Poets & Writers, Writers
Digest, The Writer, the AWP Chronicle and the Writers Market,
and has been anthologized in The Practical Writer (Viking, 2004). Creatively,
Noah is author of The Tragedy of
Macbeth, Part II, (Pegasus Books, 2008) an original play written
in blank verse, which aspires to pick up where Shakespeare’s Macbeth
left off. Macbeth II was critically-acclaimed, and featured as
recommended reading in New York Magazine’s 2008 “Fall
Preview.” He has also written several screenplays, one of which, Brothers
in Arms, was chosen as one of Hollywood’s 100 Best Scripts of the
Year on the 2007 Black List and is currently in development at a major
studio. Noah Lukeman has been a guest speaker on the subjects of writing and publishing at numerous forums, including The Juilliard School, the Wallace Stegner writing program at Stanford University, the Writers Digest Panel at Book Expo America, the MFA at Northern Michigan University, the National Society of Newspaper Columnist’s annual Boston conference, and Riker’s Island Penitentiary. He earned his B.A. with High Honors in English and Creative Writing from Brandeis University, cum laude. |
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