Will Lippincott

Will Lippincott has represented projects such as the New York Times bestseller A Colony in a Nation by Emmy Award-winning MSNBC host Chris Hayes, the national bestseller Unfinished Business by Anne-Marie Slaughter, United States Senator Mazie Hirono’s celebrated memoir Heart of Fire, the acclaimed history of the Russian ballet Bolshoi Confidential by Princeton music historian and critic Simon Morrison, and Killing the Messenger by New York Times bestselling author David Brock.

For thirteen years Lippincott worked as a literary agent and founding partner of Lippincott Massie McQuilkin. Prior to becoming an agent in 2003, Will was publisher of strategy+business magazine and a business development director at the global consulting firm Booz Allen; publisher of The New Republic; and book publishing director at The New Yorker.

As an agent based in Los Angeles, Will represents Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning authors, and focuses on journalistic narratives, politics, history, mental health, technology, and memoir.