Selections from the Backlist

The Scott Meredith Literary Agency has sold more than 10,000 books since 1946 - and arranged more than 15,000 foreign licenses.
Of those, more than 1,500 titles are still in print today reporting royalties in one edition or another from a United States or foreign publisher.
In all cases, the Agency continues to collect a commission for the life of copyright. Those titles or authors marked with an * are still represented by the Agency today.

Poul Anderson - The Boat of a Million Years and sixty other books. One of the legendary science fiction novelists.

Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine - Since its founding in 1976, an ongoing source of anthology books for foreign rights.

Robert Bloch - Psycho (source of the iconic Hitchcock movie) and 50 other stories

*Michael Bloomberg - Bloomberg by Bloomberg. The book served as a platform for the author and his company here and around the world and, accidentally, as a credentials document for his campaign for Mayor of New York. Arthur Klebanoff worked on this project for seven years.

*Bill Bradley - Time Present, Time Past, Values of the Game. Time Present, Time Past is Bill Bradley's widely praised memoir of his eighteen years in the US Senate. Arthur Klebanoff convinced Bradley to accept a $1 advance to side-step potential criticism as he planned his Presidential race. Values of the Game has a short compelling text by Bill Bradley which relates the lessons of basketball to the lessons of life. The visual book became a major bestseller - and a compelling piece of his Presidential resume. And, in a very unusual development, Broadway Books paid Workman Publishing $200,000 for the right to issue a small paperback based just on the text itself.

Marion Zimmer Bradley - The Mists of Avalon plus 40 other books. Marion Zimmer Bradley is a legendary fantasy and science fiction writer revered worldwide. The Mists of Avalon is her telling of the story of King Arthur. TNT's miniseries based on the book was a major international success.

Frederic Brown - Fabulous Clipjoint and many other mysteries and science fiction novels. His work has been the subject of numerous movies in France.

John Christopher - The Tripod Trilogy. This young adult science fiction classic has attracted readers for generations.

Arthur C. Clarke - 2001: A Space Odyssey and Childhood's End, plus 50 other books. Scott Meredith guided the career of Arthur C. Clarke for many decades. No single writer has had a greater impact on science fiction writing.

Court TV - Murder in Room 103 by Harriet Ryan is the first of two Court TV books with full support on air and on Court TV Web sites.

David Goodis - Dark Passage, Shoot the Piano Player, and 16 other novels. Master of the noir thriller, ten of Goodis' novels have been made into films.

Philip K. Dick - We Can Remember it for You Wholesale (filmed as Total Recall) and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (filmed as Blade Runner) plus thirty-five other books. No single science fiction writer has seen more of his novels and short stories produced as major motion pictures (recently Minority Report).

Ernest Gann - Fate is the Hunter, The High and the Mighty among his 22 books. Many of Ernest Gann's action novels became widely acclaimed action movies.

*Aldous Huxley - Brave New World. Scott Meredith arranged the ongoing paperback license with more than 100,000 copies sold annually.

*Linda Goodman - Sun Signs, Love Signs, Star Signs, Relationship Signs. Linda Goodman popularized astrology with the publication of Sun Signs in the late 1960's. Love Signs set every record in sight for non-fiction when published in the late 1970's. All of her books continue as perennial backlist titles both in the United States and around the world. There are more than 100,000,000 copies of her work in print.

Gerald Green - author of 25 novels incuding The Last Angry Man. Gerald Green was a prolific writer who also wrote the highly popular tie-in novel for the miniseries Holocaust.

*H. R. Haldeman - Haldeman's Diaries. This is the first title with a simultaneous CD-ROM to hit the New York Times bestseller lists. Nightline opened up back to back 45 minute specials to broadcast taped excerpts from the dictated diaries. Watergate might have been an even bigger explosion had the existence of these diaries been known before Haldeman was released from prison.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine - Since its founding in 1976, a source for anthology books for foreign rights

Syd Hoff - Danny the Dinosaur and fifty other books. This prolific children's writer made his biggest impact with one perennial title.

Jackie Collins - The Stud. Scott Meredith sold this first book of Jackie Collins in the United States. Decades later, Arthur Klebanoff re-sold the rights to Pocket Books to be reunited with the entire Jackie Collins line (on which he had worked during his years with Mort Janklow).

*H. P. Janson and Anthony Janson - History of Art, 7th Edition. Prentice Hall and Viking have a wide range of formats and updated editions for this forty year old category leading art history program.
 

*Joseph Jaworski - Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership. A classic business leadership book.

*Adam Kahane - Joseph Jaworski's partner published a compelling first business book Solving Tough Problems

Harry Kemelman - Friday the Rabbi Slept Late, The Nine Mile Walk, nine other Rabbi Small mysteries. Harry Kemelman is an Edgar Award winning mystery writer.

Hugh Lofting - Voyages of Dr. Dolittle. Scott Meredith assisted with Hugh Lofting's backlist.

H. P. Lovecraft - Founder of the modern horror genre, 30 books including At the Mountain of Madness.

*Sheila Lukins - Silver Palate, Silver Palate Good Times and New Basic Cookbook (all with Julee Rosso); All Around the World Cookbook and USA Cookbook. Twenty five years after the publication of The Silver Palate Cookbook (which one observer said "changed the way America cooks") Sheila Lukins is a legend in her own time. Her books have sold over 6,000,000 copies. Her twice monthly column in Parade is more than twenty years strong - with a monthly readership of 75,000,000. And her Parade recipes are regularly promoted at www.epicurious.com - one of the highest cooking traffic sites on the Web.

Norman Mailer - The Executioner's Song, Armies of the Night, Ancient Evenings and 14 other books. Scott Meredith changed the face of international rights dealing for American fiction with Norman Mailer's books over the years. When Bertelsmann acquired Random House, Norman Mailer's was one of the prominent backlists cited in the various news accounts.

*Mayo Clinic - Family Health Book (3rd Edition), Heart Book (2nd Edition), Pregnancy and Baby's First Year, 14 book series of disease specific topics, Mayo Clinic Williams Sonoma Healthy Cookbook. Arthur Klebanoff has represented Mayo Clinic's consumer health information publishing program for nearly fifteen years. The flagship book - Mayo Clinic's Family Health Book - has sold over 1,500,000 copies. Today Mayo Clinic is a leader in direct marketing of its health information books to consumers and their Web site - www.mayoclinic.com is frequently cited as one of the best on the Web.

Ed McBain - 20 87th Precinct mysteries. Scott Meredith first sold The Blackboard Jungle for Evan Hunter (the other writing name for Ed McBain) and later sold the initial titles in this major detective series.

Daniel P. Moynihan - A Dangerous Place. Senator Daniel P. Moynihan often represented himself, but Arthur Klebanoff sold a series of books for him as agent, including this account of his service as our representative to the United Nations. The cover image - a famous photograph of Moynihan vetoing the "Zionism is a form of racism" resolution - became the platform image of his campaign for Senate in 1976.

Richard Nixon - In the Arena, Seize the Moment, seven title Presidential Library set. In the Arena was Richard Nixon's post-presidential memoir (cover of Time Magazine; an audio book of "Nixon on tape.") As one of the most prolific non-fiction bestselling writers of the post-World War II era, Richard Nixon had experience with three agents - Swifty Lazar, Mort Janklow and Arthur Klebanoff.

Don Pendleton - The Executioner Series. 300 titles and 50,000,000 copies - the classic example of "line publishing" with a continuing character.

*Roger Tory Peterson - Field Guide to the Birds, 5th Edition (the 1934 edition was named one of the most important books of the 20th century by the New York Public Library), The Art and Photography of Roger Tory Peterson, The Field Guide Art of Roger Tory Peterson and general advice concerning the Field Guide series (80+ titles from Houghton Mifflin). The program is one of the largest backlist efforts of Houghton Mifflin. Roger Tory Peterson popularize birding in the United States and during his lifetime one every major honor there was to award in the world of nature - culminating in the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Harvard sponsors an annual lecture in his memory - the Roger Tory Peterson Institute for Natural History in Jamestown, New York (www.rtpi.org) seeks to inspire the teaching of nature to young people.

Ellery Queen - The Roman Hat Mystery, 62 title series. These pseudonymous books, a collaboration of two authors who entered a contest, set the standard for mystery series with a continuing character.

Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine - Since its founding in 1941, the source of anthology books for foreign sales.

Marsha Rivkin Center (Seattle) and Breast Cancer Research Foundation (New York)
Star Palate, a celebrity cookbook to raise money for breast and ovarian cancer research - October, 2004 (Breast Cancer Awareness Month)

Nancy Taylor Rosenberg - series of four legal thrillers with Carolyn Sullivan as the continuing character.

Eth Rosenberg - Help! I'm a Prisoner in the Library and 15 other books. This children's writer published one much loved and remembered title.

Carl Sagan - Cosmos (the 13 part PBS show is one of the most watched PBS shows ever), Contact (written with his wife Anne Druyan) and five other books. Carl Sagan helped to popularize the study of science and astronomy - Scott Meredith guided nearly his entire career.

Chuck Schumer - From the Senator who engineered the Democratic takeover of the Senate - a battle plan for recapturing the middle class.

Presence by Peter Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski and Betty Sue Flowers.
This extraordinary business leadership book is creating an international stir.
Peter Senge is a senior lecturer at MIT, the founding chairman of the Society for Organizational Learning (the publisher of the book) and the accalaimed author of The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization.

Robert Silverberg - Lord Valentine's Castle and 18 other books. This giant of science fiction novelists is typical of the quality science fiction writing the Scott Meredith Literary Agency sold for decades.

Art Spiegelman - Maus. One of the definitive books about the Holocaust - and spectacularly realized through line drawings.

Michel Thomas Language Program Relaunch - McGraw Hill is launching a four language sixteen package program. Hodder and Stoughton is repackaging its industry leading program in the UK. And there is much more to follow.

B. Traven - Treasure of the Sierra Madre. The classic novel which became a film widely recognized as one of the greatest 100 movies ever made.

Margaret Truman - Murder at the National Gallery and 12 other Capital Crimes mysteries. Harry and Bess Truman's daughter successfully published this series of mysteries. Scott Meredith pioneered in this form - and successfully placed many other celebrity mystery projects.

Gary Wills - Nixon Agonistes, Reagan's America and ten other books. One of the most talented non-fiction opinion writers, Gary Wills worked for many years with Scott Meredith as his agent.

*James Q. Wilson - American Government, a leading political science text. Arthur Klebanoff has advised James Q. Wilson about the initial arrangements and revised editions of this highly successful text.

P. G. Wodehouse - World of Jeeves and 25 other books. Scott Meredith's first client in 1946. Scott Meredith respositioned Wodehouse's writings after Wodehouse had been widely criticized for his public behavior with the Germans in World War II.

Cornell Woolrich - The Bride Wore Black, Rear Window, many other titles. These mystery novels became the basis of very famous films.

John Wyndham - Day of the Triffids. This science fiction classic novel became the basis of the cult classic film.

Timothy Zahn - Star Wars books including Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising and The Last Command plus 14 other books. When George Lucas wanted to extend the Star Wars franchise through original publishing, he turned to successful science fiction writer Timothy Zahn.