Melanie Jackson

Melanie Jackson is a literary agent. She founded Melanie Jackson Agency, LLC. Among the awards won by her clients are the Nobel Prize in Literature, four Pulitzer Prizes, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.^[1]

Biography

Melanie Jackson is a great-granddaughter of Theodore Roosevelt, a second niece of the haiku-poet Theodora Keogh and a granddaughter of Robert H. Jackson, U.S. Supreme Court Justice and Nuremberg trials prosecutor.^[2][3] Her sister is the jurist and lawyer Melissa Jackson.

Jackson married author Thomas Pynchon while working as his agent.^[4][5] They married in 1990 and have a son, Jackson.^[2][6]

Clients

• Thomas Pynchon,^[4] National Book Award winner.
• Wole Soyinka, Nobel Prize in Literature winner.^[2]
• Lorrie Moore
• Nicole Krauss
• Rick Moody^[2]
• Cynthia Ozick^[2]
• Alison Lurie, Pulitzer prize winner.
• A. S. Byatt
• Nicholson Baker
• Sapphire
• Steve Erickson
• Dana Spiotta
• Athol Fugard
• Miguel Syjuco, Man Asian Literary Prize winner.
• Amanda Filipacchi
• Eva Hoffman
• Ron Chernow,^[2] 2011 Pulitzer prize winner.
• Howard Norman
• Steve Coll, Pulitzer prize winner.
• Tim Page, Pulitzer prize winner.
• John Burnside
• Rachel Johnson
• Peter Prince
• Kate Long
• Katha Pollitt, National Book Critics Circle Award winner.
• Nick McDonell
• Stephen Wright (writer)
• Ania Szado
• Percival Everett

References