Rob McQuilkin
Massie McQuilkin & Altman Literary Agents
Likely Open
Updated: 9/18/2025
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Agent Information
Agent Bio
Rob McQuilkin graduated from Phillips Academy and Columbia University and started his publishing career at Warner Books now Grand Central Publishing where he acquired paperback rights including Primary Colors by Anonymous Joe Klein.
He moved to Anchor Books Doubleday as an Editor working with Anita Hill Phillip Lopate and Lois Gould and acquiring paperback rights to Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air.
He worked as an agent at The Palmer & Dodge Agency now Kneerim & Williams before starting his own agency.
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Submission Requirements
Fiction Requirements
Nonfiction Requirements
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Genres
Genres Represented
Fiction
- Literary Fiction
Nonfiction
- Art
- Biography
- Cultural Criticism
- History
- Memoirs
- Narrative Nonfiction
Genres Not Represented
None listed or not available
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About Massie McQuilkin & Altman Literary Agents
Agency Profile
MASSIE McQUILKIN & ALTMAN is a full-service literary agency that focuses on bringing fiction and non-fiction of quality to the largest possible audience. We work closely with our clients at every stage of a project’s development, submission, and placement—staying involved in all issues of design, publicity and sales, long after the ink has dried on a contract, to ensure that the author’s needs are being met by their publisher.
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