Rick Richter

Rick Richter has represented or (co-represented) numerous recent New York Times bestselling authors in both the adult and children’s markets, including the estate of Albert Einstein for the #1 bestselling series Max Einstein, Rolling Stone journalist Andy Greene for The Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s, Sgt. Travis Mills and Marcus Brotherton for Tough as They Come, Marc and Angel Chernoff for Getting Back to Happy, Grace Byers for I Am Enough, the estate of Muhammad Ali for Becoming Muhammad Ali, and most recently, Glamour journalist Jessica Radloff’s The Big Bang Theory; The Definitive Inside Story of the Epic Hit Series.

Richter spent over a decade on Simon & Schuster’s Executive Committee as President, Children’s Book Division, and President of Sales and Distribution, and brings a wide range of publishing and media expertise to his role at Aevitas. His areas of interest include self-help, pop culture and music, memoir, history, science, politics and social justice, narrative food writing, and faith. He is also interested in select true crime, commercial fiction, and psychological/horror thrillers and diverse voices in all categories. He has extensive experience in children’s books, having overseen two of the nation’s top children’s publishers: Simon & Schuster and Candlewick Press and represents illustrators and children’s authors writing fiction and non-fiction from picture books through YA.

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