Leslie Meredith joined DG&B in 2021, after working as an agent at Mary Evans Inc. for several years. Before becoming an agent, Leslie was an editor, working at imprints of Simon & Schuster for over 15 years, after holding positions at Ballantine, Harmony/Crown, Bantam, and McGraw-Hill. As a hands-on editor, Leslie guided her authors from idea and proposal to finished manuscript, with attention to structure and insistence on clarity of expression. Her passion for books on science and psychology, Western and holistic medicine, animals and nature, spiritual inquiry and practice, and food and cooking has carried into her work as an agent. She represents scientists and psychologists; physicians and therapists; journalists, memoirists, and authors of narrative nonfiction; and experts who through clear and incisive storytelling advocate for reform in medicine, health, business, law, and public policy. Leslie grew up in the Pittsburgh suburbs, roaming the woods of the Pennsylvania hills, devouring books, practicing the piano, and playing on volleyball, field hockey, and tennis teams. After graduating from high school, Leslie attended a conservatory of music. There, she realized, in a history of science class where a beleaguered grad student was teaching The Structure of Scientific Revolutions to uninterested music students, that her passion was the written word. She transferred to a liberal arts college, then moved to New York to work at Vanguard Press, a small, distinguished literary publisher, and subsequently worked at imprints at the Big Five. She lives in Connecticut with her partner, a former publishing sales executive who now works in hospitality, and their corgis, where she enjoys gardening (planting for birds and butterflies, heirloom apples and pears, herbs and vegetables), cooking and baking, and training and competing with the corgis in agility.
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