Jane von Mehren represents leading thinkers including paleontologist Stephen Brusatte’s internationally bestselling The Rise and Fall of Dinosaurs, political economist Mauro Guillen’s internationally bestselling 2030: How Today’s Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything, historian Susan Stryker’s Changing Gender, journalist and memoirist Kendra James’s Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School and fiction such as Minrose Gwin’s award-winning The Accidentals, Kevin Morris’s Gettysburg, and Jonathan Santlofer’s The Last Mona Lisa.
She holds a BA with honors from Vassar College. Before becoming an agent, von Mehren was an editor and publishing executive at Houghton Mifflin, Penguin, and Random House, most recently as a Senior Vice President and Publisher at Random House.
Working out of Aevitas’s New York office, von Mehren is interested in narratives in the areas of business, history, memoir, popular culture and science, books that help us live our best lives, literary, book club, and historical fiction.
Woman Up!
The Power of Sensory Play
Dugie the Dinosaur
Finding What Feeds Us: An Invitation to Renegade Grief
Marrying Myself
Businesses’ Free Lunch
What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
Democracy's Data and How to Read It
Talent
Minority Rule
Chicken Little, The Sky Isn't Falling
Love After 50
Why Didn't I Think of That?: Thirty Years At, In, and Around Barneys and New York
Unlocking Your Menopause Type
The Humble Way
My Autistic Teachers
Let's Meet
The Secret History of Sharks
Golden: The Power of Silence in a World of Noise
Let's Meet
Golden: The Power of Silence in a World of Noise
Change Begins with a Question
Ageless Aging
The Kingdom of Prep
The Multigenerational Revolution: How Demographics and Technology Will Transform Learning, Working, and Playing—At Every Age
A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens
In These Worlds of Ultraviolet
The Crossing
Grant Me Vision
A Dangerous Decline
Be Water My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee
Guardian Of The Scroll Series, Books 1 and 2
The Rise of the Mammals
Dugie the Dinosaur
Birds Take Flight
Untitled Memoir
Ethics for Now
Talent