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Jason Anthony 5

An agent with Massie & McQuilkin (MMQLIT) (see other agents at this agency).

About

JASON ANTHONY — agent (joined 2008) — is a former film executive who joined Massie & McQuilkin after a three-year affiliation with Zachary Shuster Harmsworth. As a film executive, Anthony worked for the Disney, MGM and Sony Pictures studios and ran the New York offices of Spider-Man producer Laura Ziskin and Men in Black director Barry Sonnenfeld. In his ten-year career in film, Anthony specialized in developing film and TV properties from books. Before becoming a literary agent in 2004, he worked in London as a film consultant for the TBWA/Chiat-Day advertising agency and originated the popular “Hollywood Reader” column for Publishers Weekly, the industry’s most influential trade magazine. Anthony graduated from Columbia University in 1993 with a B.A. in film and is the co-author of five published books. He specializes in young adult and commercial fiction and most areas of non-fiction, including pop culture, memoir, true crime, and general psychology.

Country

United States

Fiction Temp Closed

Audience:
Open to a broad Audience, including: Adults, Young adults.
Genres:
General General
Open to all/most Genres Open to all/most Genres
Styles:
Open to all/most Styles, including: Mainstream.
Topics:
Open to all/most Topics.
Types/Lengths:
Novel Novel
Submissions:
ElectronicPostalSimultaneous
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Nonfiction Temp Closed

Audience:
Open to a broad Audience, including: Adults, Young adults.
Styles:
Open to all/most Styles, including: Mainstream, Personal.
Topics:
Open to all/most Topics, including: Memoir, Psychology, Society/Culture (General, Crime, Pop culture), Sociology.
Types/Lengths:
Book Book
Submissions:
ElectronicPostalSimultaneous
OK No OK
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Dates

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2023
Last Audited: 31 Oct 2023 We audit each active listing twice a year.
Date Added: 17 May 2018

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