Noah Lukeman
In addition to The Plot Thickens, Noah Lukeman is author of the forthcoming A
Dash of Style: The Art and Mastery of Punctuation, which will be
published by WW Norton in the U.S. in April 2006 and by Oxford University Press
in the U.K. in April 2006. He is also author of the the bestselling The
First Five Pages (Simon & Schuster, 1999) which is now part of the
curriculum in many universities. 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. He has 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.