Alison Lewis joined the agency in 2022, following six years at The Zoë Pagnamenta Agency. She began her career in editorial at W. W. Norton, and for five years, was editor of the literary magazine American Chordata. She represents a wide range of nonfiction, spanning journalism, cultural criticism, history, science, literary memoir, and essays, as well as select literary fiction. She is particularly drawn to writers with a distinctive voice and perspective, excellent prose, and a sense of social or political imagination and responsibility. She loves vivid narratives and characters, hidden or forgotten worlds, and writers pushing the boundaries of preconceived ideas and histories of representation in literature.
Her clients have won numerous honors including PEN Awards, Guggenheim Fellowships, the Windham Campbell Prize, the Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, the Robert B. Silvers Grant, and long and short-listings for the National Book Awards, the National Book Critics Circle Awards, and the Ondaatje Prize. They include Michelle Tea, Julia Cooke, Tina Campt, Gabriel Winant, Brandon Shimoda, Emmanuel Iduma, Natalie Hodges, Madhu H. Kaza, Madison Mainwaring, Zoé Samudzi, Jules Gill-Peterson, Joshua Clark Davis, Beatrice Adler-Bolton, and Thuy Linh Tu.
Among the books she sold while at The Zoë Pagnamenta Agency are Julia Cooke’s COME FLY THE WORLD, Tina Campt’s A BLACK GAZE, Michelle Tea’s KNOCKING MYSELF UP, Ali Araghi’s THE IMMORTALS OF TEHRAN, Emmanuel Iduma’s I AM STILL WITH YOU, and Amy Key’s ARRANGEMENTS IN BLUE.
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