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Leslie Meredith

An agent with Dystel, Goderich & Bourret LLC (see other agents at this agency).

About

Leslie Meredith joined DG&B in 2021. 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 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, and business. Leslie grew up in the Pittsburgh suburbs and after graduating from The Winchester-Thurston School attended The Peabody Conservatory of Music, transferred to Swarthmore, and after graduation moved to New York to work in publishing, with long tenures at imprints of the Big Five. She lives in Connecticut with her partner, a former publishing sales executive who now works in hospitality, and their corgis.

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United States

AI Policy

Human-created work only; no AI use allowed
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Nonfiction Open

Leslie is looking for well-written nonfiction in a broad range of topics: memoirs with a distinctive point of view; great and small awakenings; animal stories and insights into animal behavior and our common bonds; psychological, spiritual, and therapeutic perspectives that change people’s lives; popular science that excites and informs; therapies and spiritual practices that inspire and heal; narrative non-fiction on subcultures or passions or events whose stories have not been told before – or are told in a fresh way; nature and natural science – animal, vegetable, and mineral.

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Lengths:

Book

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Literary, Mainstream, Personal.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics including...
Health/Medicine.
Lifestyle: Mind-body-spirit.
Memoir.
Nature/Environment: General, Nature.
Psychology.
Religion/Spirituality: Spirituality.
Science.

Submissions:

Method: Email.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.

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Dates

Last Updated: 27 Aug 2026

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