Harold Schmidt
Harold Schmidt Literary Agency
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Updated: 9/2/2025
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Harold Schmidt founded Harold Schmidt Literary Agency after representing writers at the New York offices of International Creative Management and William Morris Agency.
He is a long-time member of the AAR (Association of Authors’ Representatives) and his agency has co-agents worldwide for foreign language rights and for English-language rights outside the United States.
The agency also partners with agents in Los Angeles and London for motion picture and dramatic rights.
Concurrent with agenting, he worked as an audio books script writer for Simon & Schuster, Time Warner, Random House, Harper Collins, and Bantam.
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- Jessica Hagedorn
- Rebecca Brown
- John Stewart Wynne
- John Wooley
- Ron Wolfe
- Norma Lorre Goodrich
- Gershen Kaufman
- Lev Raphael
- Gregory F. Kishel
- Patricia Gunter Kishel
- Ernesto Mestre
- Bo Huston
- David M. Pierce
- David Everitt
- Gareth L. Pawlowski
- Lawrence Chua
- Jaffe Cohen
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