Jane von Mehren
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.
Represents
Woman Up!
Finding What Feeds Us: An Invitation to Renegade Grief
Story of Dogs
Why Didn't I Think of That?: Thirty Years At, In, and Around Barneys and New York
The Perimenopause Survival Guide
The Last Supper
Blue Marilyn
Let's Meet
Human to Human
Stirring Liberty: How George Washington’s Enslaved Chef Transformed American Cuisine and Secretly Cooked His Way to Freedom
The Farther Shore
Be Water My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee
Guardian Of The Scroll Series, Books 1 and 2
New York, NY 10010
