Experience

Carol Mann Agency

• United States
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Literary Agent

  • Jan 2011 - Present

  Joanne is an agent with the Carol Mann Agency. Before becoming an agent, Joanne was Senior Editor at Ballantine Books/Random House, and Executive Editor at Beacon Press. Among the authors she worked with as an editor are Michael Thompson, Judith Thurman, Mary Pipher, Karen Armstrong, Bruce Barcott, Sven Birkerts, Jonathan Kirsch, and Anne Lamott. As an agent, Joanne represents a wide array of nonfiction. She has vast experience working with academics and experts in diverse fields… Show more Joanne is an agent with the Carol Mann Agency. Before becoming an agent, Joanne was Senior Editor at Ballantine Books/Random House, and Executive Editor at Beacon Press. Among the authors she worked with as an editor are Michael Thompson, Judith Thurman, Mary Pipher, Karen Armstrong, Bruce Barcott, Sven Birkerts, Jonathan Kirsch, and Anne Lamott. As an agent, Joanne represents a wide array of nonfiction. She has vast experience working with academics and experts in diverse fields, helping them develop and write books for a broad market. She also has a particular love of the memoir, narrative nonfiction, the personal narrative, and narrative journalism. She is always looking for writers with strong, original voices who explore a subject in new and surprising ways. Her nonfiction list includes books in psychology, women’s issues, history, education, science, health and wellness, sports, humor, food and culture, natural history and anything about animals, religion and spirituality, and African American issues. Books Joanne has represented include: THE GLOBAL ACHIEVEMENT GAP and CREATING INNOVATORS by Harvard education expert Tony Wagner; THE ART OF SLOW WRITING by Louise DeSalvo; THE MISUNDERSTOOD BIBLE by Kristin Swenson; THE MIGRAINE BRAIN by Carolyn Bernstein, M.D. and Elaine McArdle; THE INVISIBLES: THE UNTOLD STORY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN SLAVES INSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE by Jesse Holland; THE SONG OF INCREASE by Jacqueline Freeman; IF ONLY YOU PEOPLE COULD FOLLOW DIRECTIONS by Jessica Hendry Nelson; THE CRACKER QUEEN BY Lauretta Hannon; MY GREEN MANIFESTO by David Gessner; DADDY LONG LEGS: THE NATURAL EDUCATION OF A FATHER by John T. Price; and THE ACCIDENTAL EXPLORER: WAYFINDING IN ALASKA by Sherry Simpson. Show less Joanne is an agent with the Carol Mann Agency. Before becoming an agent, Joanne was Senior Editor at Ballantine Books/Random House, and Executive Editor at Beacon Press. Among the authors she worked with as an editor are Michael Thompson, Judith Thurman, Mary Pipher, Karen Armstrong, Bruce Barcott, Sven Birkerts, Jonathan Kirsch, and Anne Lamott. As an agent, Joanne represents a wide array of nonfiction. She has vast experience working with academics and experts in diverse fields… Show more Joanne is an agent with the Carol Mann Agency. Before becoming an agent, Joanne was Senior Editor at Ballantine Books/Random House, and Executive Editor at Beacon Press. Among the authors she worked with as an editor are Michael Thompson, Judith Thurman, Mary Pipher, Karen Armstrong, Bruce Barcott, Sven Birkerts, Jonathan Kirsch, and Anne Lamott. As an agent, Joanne represents a wide array of nonfiction. She has vast experience working with academics and experts in diverse fields, helping them develop and write books for a broad market. She also has a particular love of the memoir, narrative nonfiction, the personal narrative, and narrative journalism. She is always looking for writers with strong, original voices who explore a subject in new and surprising ways. Her nonfiction list includes books in psychology, women’s issues, history, education, science, health and wellness, sports, humor, food and culture, natural history and anything about animals, religion and spirituality, and African American issues. Books Joanne has represented include: THE GLOBAL ACHIEVEMENT GAP and CREATING INNOVATORS by Harvard education expert Tony Wagner; THE ART OF SLOW WRITING by Louise DeSalvo; THE MISUNDERSTOOD BIBLE by Kristin Swenson; THE MIGRAINE BRAIN by Carolyn Bernstein, M.D. and Elaine McArdle; THE INVISIBLES: THE UNTOLD STORY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN SLAVES INSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE by Jesse Holland; THE SONG OF INCREASE by Jacqueline Freeman; IF ONLY YOU PEOPLE COULD FOLLOW DIRECTIONS by Jessica Hendry Nelson; THE CRACKER QUEEN BY Lauretta Hannon; MY GREEN MANIFESTO by David Gessner; DADDY LONG LEGS: THE NATURAL EDUCATION OF A FATHER by John T. Price; and THE ACCIDENTAL EXPLORER: WAYFINDING IN ALASKA by Sherry Simpson. Show less



Zachary Shuster Harmsworth

• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Literary Agent

  • Sep 2005 - Dec 2010



Beacon Press

• United States
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Executive Editor

  • 2001 - 2005



Penguin Random House

• United States
• Book Publishing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Editor

  • 1990 - 2001