David Kuhn has represented Amy Schumer’s #1 New York Times bestseller The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo and Liaquat Ahamed’s Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, as well as books by Pulitzer Prize winner and National Book Award nominee Louis Menand; scholar, television producer and presenter, and MacArthur Genius Fellow Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer; Senator Sheldon Whitehouse; former Congressman Steve Israel; Pulitzer Prize winner and Washington Post critic Robin Givhan; journalists Steven Brill, Jonathan Alter, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, and Craig Unger; New Yorker writer Mary Norris; New Yorker Features Director Susan Morrison; New York Times columnist Charles Blow; New York Times reporters Jeremy Peters, Vanessa Friedman, Shawn McCreesh, Michael Grynbaum, and New York Times Editorial Board member Jesse Wegman; Wall Street Journal reporters Erich Schwartzel, Stacy Meichtry, and Nick Kostov; comedian-writer-actors Jessi Klein, Casey Wilson, June Diane Raphael, Paul Scheer, and David Steinberg; former New Yorker Cartoon Editor Bob Mankoff; visual artist David Salle; performance artist Marina Abramovic; legal scholar and activist Kimberlé Crenshaw; feminist, activist, and MacArthur Genius Fellow Loretta Ross; Ms. magazine co-founder Letty Cottin Pogrebin; EMILYs List founder Ellen Malcolm; opera legend Jessye Norman; musicians Mark Ronson and Nile Rodgers; model/activist Emily Ratajkowski; theatre producer Jeffrey Seller; fashion historian Hamish Bowles; fashion designers Isaac Mizrahi, Zac Posen, Betsey Johnson, and Patricia Field; actor and environmentalist Ted Danson; actor-writers America Ferrera, Andrew McCarthy, Gabourey Sidibe, John Lithgow, Pamela Anderson, Lili Taylor, Julianne Moore, Jim Carey, Joel Grey, Parker Posey, Gina Gershon, Griffin Dunne, Tatum O'Neal, and Rosie Perez; and institutions including New York Magazine and The Wall Street Journal.
Kuhn graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College and worked for many years as a magazine editor. He was Senior Editor at Vanity Fair, Features Director at The New Yorker, and Editor in Chief at Brill’s Content.
How to be Well
Distilled: An Insider’s Search for the Best American Whiskey, Bourbon, and Rye
For Myself and Others: A Memoir
Other Fronts: Dwight Eisenhower, Kay Summersby, and the Women of the General’s Inner Circle During World War II
Untitled Nonfiction Book
Hong Kong Confidential
Empire: Star Wars and the World It Built
Woman of Steele
The Collected Essays of Zora Neale Hurston
Annotated Edition of Alain Locke’s The New Negro: An Interpretation
Tanaquil: Le Clercq, Balanchine, and a Life at the Forefront of the 20th Century
The Lost Founder: James Wilson and the Dream of a New America
THE ORBIT OF OUR DREAMING
THE WORLD IS FULL OF BEAUTIFUL QUIET THINGS
Untitled John Ashbery Biography
Untitled Jane Freilicher Biography
A Thousand Dollars For A Kiss, Fifty Cents For Your Soul
JEAN STEIN: An American Scene
Backtalker: A Memoir
Under the Blacklight: The Intersectional Vulnerabilities that the Twin Pandemics Lay Bare (Editor)
Untitled Work of History
A Terrible Swift Sword
Zora Neale Hurston Significations Volume
Untitled Collection
Unititled
Untitled Memoir
Empire of the Elite