About Us

James Fitzgerald has been a literary agent since 2000. He has run his own agency since 2003. His authors include Dennis Hopper, Sonny Barger of the Hell’s Angels, Andy Greenwald, Osho, Ed Sanders, David Carradine, Blair Tindall, Dale Maharidge, photographer Nat Finkelstein, Legs McNeil, Marc Spitz, Sarah “Ultragrrrl” Lewitinn, The Village Voice, True West magazine, photographer Michael Williamson, Michael Wallis and Jim Steinmeyer. Prior to being an agent he was an editor at St. Martin's Press where he published Generation X, John (Rotten) Lydon’s autobiography and four of Leni Riefenstahls’s books, Sarah Vowell and Ice-T, and Red Meat. Prior to that he was an editor at Doubleday where he worked with Papa John Phillips, David Bowie, Ruth Montgomery, Arnold Palmer and Robert Crumb and photographers William Eggleston, Amy Arbus and Neil Leifer. Fitzgerald is also the author of six books including the infamous First Family Paper Doll and Cut-Out Book and A-Rod: Major League Hero. His newest book, The Joys of Smoking Cigarettes, will be published by HarperCollins in 2007. As an agent, he is interested in l’aujourd’hui, good stories, good writing and a good peppery soup.

Anne Reid Garrett has been with the James Fitzgerald Agency since 2005. Prior to becoming an agent, she was the Assistant Director of the Small Press Center. She has held positions at Cambridge University Press and Seven Stories Press. She is interested primarily in non-fiction. Her recent sales include Sarah Brown’s Cringe: Teenage Diaries, Journals, Notes, Letters, Poems, and Abandoned Rock Operas (Crown), Huey Newton’s Revolutionary Suicide (Penguin Classics), Trevor Kelley and Leslie Simon’s Everybody Hurts: An Essential Guide to Emo Culture (HarperCollins), and Michael Mason’s Head Cases: Stories of Brain Injuries and their Aftermath (Farrrar, Strauss & Giroux). She manages the agency’s subsidiary rights.

Foreign Co-Agents

UNITED KINGDOM: Abner Stein & Associates, contact: Arabella Stein, arabella@abnerstein.co.uk

GERMANY: Michael Meller Agency, contact: Michael Meller, m.meller@melleragency.com

NETHERLANDS & SCANDANAVIA: Sane Töregård Agency, contact: Ulf Töregård, ulf.toregard@sanetoregard.se

FRANCE: Agence Eliane Benisti, contact: Noémie Rollet, noemie@elianebenisti.com

ITALY: Luigi Bernabo Associates, contact: Luigi Bernabo, bernabo.luigi@tin.it

JAPAN, CHINA, KOREA: Owl’s Agency, contact: Mario Tauchi, mario@owlsagency.com

BRAZIL: BMSR, contact: Laura Riff, laura@bmsr.com.br

MEXICO: Meigas, Agencia Literaria, contact: Ruth García-Lago, meigasagencialiteraria@yahoo.com.mx