Alison Lewis joined the agency in 2022, following six years at The Zoë Pagnamenta Agency. She began her career at W. W. Norton, and for five years, was editor of the literary magazine American Chordata. She represents a wide range of nonfiction, spanning cultural criticism, history, investigative journalism, popular science, social science, and literary true crime, 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 entrenched structures of power.
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, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the Ondaatje Prize. They include Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant, Tina Campt, Julia Cooke, Helena de Bres, Benjamin Ehrlich, Jules Gill-Peterson, Natalie Hodges, Emmanuel Iduma, the Estate of June Jordan, Emma Kemp, Matt Kessler, Christine Lai, Madison Mainwaring, Saree Makdisi, Sarah Menkedick, Tina Post, Zoé Samudzi, Brandon Shimoda, Michelle Tea, Jessie Wilkerson, Gabriel Winant, and Lindsay Zafir.
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