Lynn Nesbit
Janklow & Nesbit Associates
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Updated: 9/17/2025
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Lynn Nesbit grew up in Dundee, Illinois and graduated from Northwestern University with a BA in Speech.
She attended the Sorbonne and the Radcliffe Publishing Procedures Course.
In the fall of 1960, she joined the Sterling Lord Agency, and in 1965 moved to create and run for twenty-three years the literary department for what later became International Creative Management.
In January 1989, she co-founded Janklow & Nesbit Associates with Morton Janklow.
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- Kwame Anthony Appiah
- Kirsten Bakis
- Ann Beattie
- Robert A. Caro
- Jimmy Carter
- Joan Didion
- Jeffrey Eugenides
- Ronan Farrow
- Anand Giridharadas
- Casey Gerald
- Andrew Sean Greer
- Shirley Hazzard
- Michael Korda
- Jonathan Kozol
- Maaza Mengiste
- Jayne Anne Phillips
- Darryl Pinckney
- Richard Price
- Roxana Robinson
- Amartya Sen
- Gay Talese
- Mark Whitaker
- Tom Wolfe
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