Joshua Getzler
HG Literary
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Updated: 1/30/2026
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Agent Bio
Josh left Harcourt in 1993 to earn an MBA from Columbia Business School and then spent eleven years owning and operating the minor league baseball team Staten Island Yankees.
He returned to publishing in late 2006, worked at Writers House until November 2009 building a list of adult novelists, YA and middle grade authors, and nonfiction writers, then joined Russell and Volkening.
In May 2011 he partnered with Carrie Hannigan and has since been actively running his list.
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Genres Represented
Fiction
- Crime
- Historical Fiction
- Middle Grade - Fiction
- Mystery
- Thrillers
- Upmarket Fiction
- Women's Fiction
Nonfiction
- Nonfiction
- Business
- Politics
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