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NAME
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Jill Kneerim
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AGENCY
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Kneerim & Williams Literary Agency
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AAR MEMBER
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EMAIL
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submissions@kwlit.com
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AGENCY WEB SITE
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http://kwlit.com/
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FICTION GENRES
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NONFICTION GENRES
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History
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Biography
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Religion
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Medical
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Parenting
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Multi-Cultural
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Self-Help
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Memoirs
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Spirituality
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Women's Issues
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Psychology
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Photography
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Cultural/Social Issues
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Journalism
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CURRENT STATUS
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This agent accepts queries
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MORE INFORMATION
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SPECIAL INTERESTS
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Her interests include a good story on almost any interesting subject; serious fiction; American, African, Asian, and European history; religion; psychology and anthropology; biography and memoir; women's issues; the English language; and good writing.
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DOES NOT REPRESENT
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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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Email: All queries should be sent via email to submissions@kwlit.com
- Snail Mail: query with SASE
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FACTS/TIDBITS
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She represents a wide range of authors, including best-selling novelists Brad Meltzer and Sue Miller; ADD expert Dr. Edward M. Hallowell; scholars Pauline Maier, Stephen Greenblatt, Tanya Luhrmann, and Pulitzer Prize-winner Caroline Elkins; journalists Larry Tye, Bo Burlingham, and David Laskin; biographers Susan Quinn and Gillian Gill; former poet laureate Robert Pinsky; and leading women thinkers such as Jean Kilbourne, Kitty Dukakis, and Dr. Susan Love.
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She is also a former editor and publisher who has worked for Simon & Schuster, American Heritage, and Grossman Publishers, a publishing house that she cofounded
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EDUCATION
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Graduate of Harvard University
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NEW DEALS
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PAST/PRESENT CLIENTS
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Between Me and the River
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Carrie Host
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Memoirs
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Harlequin; 1 edition (August 1, 2009) |
On Halloween in 2003, Host was given terrifying news: she had carcinoid tumor, a rare and deadly form of cancer . The wife and mother of three children (then ages 10 months, 11 and 13), who is now in remission, was given a prognosis of 18 to 36 months. In this heartfelt narrative, Host attempts to simultaneously fight the disease and find peace with the possibility of death while remaining strong and hopeful.
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Backcast: Fatherhood, Fly-fishing, and a River Journey Through the Heart of Alaska
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Lou Ureneck
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Memoirs
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St. Martin's Griffin (May 12, 2009) |
While father and son fishing trips can be the stuff of American legend, they can also turn out to be the stuff of anger, love and self-discovery. In his memoir of a fishing trip through the Alaskan wilderness, Lou Ureneck brings to life the struggle to reclaim the trust of his teenage son, Adam, following his divorce.
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Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend
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Larry Tye
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Biography
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Random House; 1St Edition edition (June 9, 2009) |
Tye, a Boston Globe reporter and author of The Father of Spin, offers the first biography on Satchel Paige, the premier pitcher of the Negro Leagues
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