Jane Gelfman

Jane Gelfman

Gelfman Schneider
Likely Closed
USA
Updated: 9/10/2025
Agent Bio

Jane Gelfman was born in New York, and after attending an out of-town college, couldn’t wait to move back to the city and work in Publishing.

After a small flirtation with Simon and Schuster, and as a “story editor” in film production, she formed an alliance with a British publisher as acquisitions editor and agent for its US rights, and then seguéd into full-time agenting in partnership with Deborah Schneider.

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