The new combined agency is Calligraph, based in New York and Boston. Katherine Flynn, formerly managing partner at Kneerim & Williams, and Zoë Pagnamenta will head up Calligraph. Others at the combined agency include partner Alison MacKeen; principal agents Lucy Cleland, Eve MacSweeney, and Carolyn Savarese; affiliated agent Carol Franco; agent and editorial manager Sarah Khalil; agent and foreign rights manager Jess Hoare; and Kneerim & Williams co-founder John Taylor Williams.
Jane Friedman has spent her entire career working in the publishing industry, with a focus on business reporting and author education. Established in 2015, her newsletter The Bottom Line provides nuanced market intelligence to thousands of authors and industry professionals; in 2023, she was named Publishing Commentator of the Year by Digital Book World.
Jane’s expertise regularly features in major media outlets such as The New York Times, The Atlantic, NPR, The Today Show, Wired, The Guardian, Fox News, and BBC. Her book, The Business of Being a Writer, Second Edition (The University of Chicago Press), is used as a classroom text by many writing and publishing degree programs. She reaches thousands through speaking engagements and workshops at diverse venues worldwide, including NYU’s Advanced Publishing Institute, Frankfurt Book Fair, and numerous MFA programs.
