Jeffery McGraw, Agent

Jeffery McGraw directs the New York operations of The August Agency LLC, a literary and media management firm he co-founded with fellow agent Cricket Pechstein Freeman in 2004. He brings to the company a wide range of experience in both publishing and television, with a concentrated background in the areas of editorial, legal, publicity, public relations, advertising and promotion, and feature reporting. Throughout his career he has had the privilege to work with many different types of books and an equally diverse roster of remarkable authors and artists — among them Elizabeth Berg, Patricia Gaffney, Michael Lee West, Olivia Goldsmith, Al Hirschfeld, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Bill O'Reilly, and Betty Rollin.

Jeffery currently seeks prescriptive nonfiction projects with a full-bodied narrative command and an undeniable contemporary relevance, as well as fiction defined not so much by a novel's category as by its extraordinary power to resonate universally on a deeply emotional level. He has an enormous passion for well written melodramas (consider Fannie Hurst's BACK STREET and IMITATION OF LIFE or Michael Cunningham's THE HOURS) and sarcastically witty comedies-of-manners (think Joseph L. Mankiewicz's ALL ABOUT EVE). His other favorite areas of publishing interest include political science, history, biography, self-help, health, lifestyle, and the social sciences, et al.

He does not handle science fiction, fantasy, poetry, or horror.