Profile

Arthur Klebanoff has been a leading literary agent for over thirty years, handling books with more than $1 billion in retail sales since forming his own literary agency in 1983.

Arthur Klebanoff acquired the Scott Meredith Literary Agency in 1993 and is its sole owner. Arthur's notable deals over the years include:

Daniel P. Moynihan's book A Dangerous Place whose jacket became the platform for his race for the United States Senate.
The sale of Scruples by Judith Krantz to Crown which propelled Morton L. Janklow Associates, Inc. into commercial fiction.
The precedent setting sales of Linda Goodman's Love Signs - and twenty-five year management of the Linda Goodman record-setting list.
Twenty year management of the legendary cookbook (and Parade Editor) career of Sheila Lukins, whose six cookbooks have over 6,000,000 copies in print.
Sale of two books for Richard Nixon and a Nixon Library set of six backlist titles.
Representing since 1990 the consumer reference publishing program of Mayo Clinic.
Title acquisition and management since 1982 for the 3,000+ title program for the leading leather-bound publisher Easton Press.
Bill Bradley's book Value of the Game which became part of his resume for a Presidential campaign.
Handling since 1982 the collectibles and new publishing activities of Roger Tory Peterson, who popularized birdwatching in the United States.
Michael Bloomberg's book Bloomberg on Bloomberg which became the resume for his successful campaign for Mayor of New York.
The award winning 75th Anniversary book for Hertz Corporation.
Packaging the Oshkosh B'Gosh entry into children's publishing with the support of the National Center for Family Literacy.
Representing History of Art by H.W. Janson and Anthony Janson, one of the most successful text projects of the past fifty years.
Arthur Klebanoff's own book The Agent: Personalities, Politics and Publishing was published in 2002.
Arthur Klebanoff has been involved in electronic publishing for nearly twenty years. In 2001, he launched RosettaBooks LLC (www.rosettabooks.com) a leading independent e-book publisher.

Arthur Klebanoff worked for Daniel P. Moynihan in the White House in 1969/70 between his graduation from Yale (where he won the Alpheus Henry Snow Prize for "inspiring in his classmates an admiration and love for the best traditions of high scholarship") and arrival at Harvard Law School (Law Review, 1972).

Arthur is an advisor to Arts Connection, a leading arts-in-education organization and an advisor to the Roger Tory Peterson Institute for Natural History, a nature-in-education organization.

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.