Profile: Arthur Klebanoff

Arthur Klebanoff, owner and president of the Scott Meredith Literary Agency, has been a leading literary agent and influential presence in the publishing industry for over 35 years, representing books with more than $1 billion in retail sales. He is the founder (2001) and CEO of RosettaBooks LLC, the leading independent electronic publisher specializing in introducing to the e-book space authors whose print titles are a vibrant element of the ongoing cultural dialogue, from the contemporary such as Stephen Covey's The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and the Rainbow Magic series, to such sought-after classics as Brave New World, Slaughterhouse-Five, A Passage to India, Shoeless Joe, Winston Churchill's The Gathering Storm, and many others.

As co-founder and partner in the literary agency Morton L. Janklow Associates Inc, he worked over a ten-year period on more than 30 seven-figure book deals, most involving commercial fiction. Arthur previously led the publishing division of International Management Group. He has represented a broad range of authors and publishing programs, including Michael Bloomberg, Danielle Steel, Bill Bradley, Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman, Barbara Taylor Bradford, Judith Krantz, Richard Nixon, masterful Civil War artist Mort Kunstler, Daniel Patrick Moynihan (for whom he worked in the White House between college and law school), and the Mayo Clinic. He orchestrated the precedent-setting sales of Linda Goodman's Love Signs and has overseen the management of her record-setting backlist; there are more than 60 million copies of her books in print worldwide.

Arthur is a graduate of Harvard Law School (Law Review, 1972) and Yale University (where he won the Alpheus Henry Snow Prize for "inspiring in his classmates an admiration and love for the best traditions of high scholarship"). He is an advisor to the Roger Tory Peterson Institute for Natural History, a nature-in-education organization. Arthur is also author of the book The Agent: Personalities, Politics and Publishing (2002).

Senior Staff

Mary Jo Anne Valko Warner has worked with Arthur Klebanoff since 1978. Mary Jo handles the negotiation, contracting and management for the 3,000+ title Easton Press program.