Alison Lewis

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 the MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the PEN Awards, the Windham Campbell Prize, the Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, and long and short-listings for the National Book Awards, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, the Ondaatje Prize, and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. They include Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant, Jeremy Atherton Lin, Tina Campt, Julia Cooke, Helena de Bres, Katrina Dodson, Benjamin Ehrlich, Timothy Faust, Jules Gill-Peterson, Natalie Hodges, Emmanuel Iduma, the Estate of June Jordan, Madhu Kaza, Emma Kemp, Matt Kessler, Monica Kim, Christine Lai, Madison Mainwaring, Saree Makdisi, Sarah Menkedick, Tina Post, Zoé Samudzi, Brandon Shimoda, Michelle Tea, Jessie Wilkerson, Gabriel Winant, and Lindsay Zafir.

Country & Year Established

United States

Agent since 2016

Professional Associations

Member of AALA

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