Esmond Harmsworth
Esmond Harmsworth brings to Veralux his impressive business and creative credentials, together with one of the most brilliant editorial minds in publishing, with countless bestsellers to his name.
Born in London, Esmond was educated in England before graduating with honors from Brown University and Harvard Law School. As a literary agent, Harmsworth represents fiction and nonfiction. For fiction, he represents literary fiction, mystery and crime, popular (mainstream) fiction and young adult and middle grade fiction. His nonfiction list is very varied, and includes biography, true-crime, narrative nonfiction, popular science, business, media, politics, popular culture, religion, spirituality, history, memoir, international affairs and psychology. He is in charge of the agency's foreign rights department and deals directly with publishers in London.
Novels Harmsworth has represented include: the detective novels Lover’s Crossing and Choke Point by James C. Mitchell (St. Martin’s Press); the literary thriller A Carnivore’s Inquiry by PEN/Faulkner winner Sabina Murray (Grove/Atlantic); a multiple book series, The Louisa May Alcott Mysteries, by Anna MacLean (Dutton/NAL); the novel In The Cherry Tree by Dan S. Pope (Picador); the literary thriller The Spinning Man by George Harrar (Putnam); the novel My Life on Mars by Alicia Metcalf Miller (Plume); and, short story collections such as Women In The Grove by Paula Peterson (Beacon Press) and Dying Light by Donald Hays (Macadam/Cage).
For nonfiction, examples of books he has represented include The Darkest Jungle by New York Times best-selling author Todd Balf (Crown Publishing Group); the New York Times best-selling Black Mass: The Irish Mob, The FBI and a Devil’s Deal by Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill (PublicAffairs/HarperCollins); Running The World: the Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power, by David J. Rothkopf (PublicAffairs); Grapevine: The New Art of Word-of-Mouth Marketing by Dave Balter and John Butman (Penguin/Portfolio); The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan S. Haidt (Basic Books); and, Healing the Heart of Conflict by Dr. Marc Gopin (Rodale Press).
Harmsworth is most strongly interested strong nonfiction narratives, mysteries and thrillers, and true-life stories of people overcoming adversity. Many of his literary projects are in development for feature film or television.