Agent

Joëlle Delbourgo

Joëlle Delbourgo is a highly energetic former publishing executive turned entrepreneur. For more than three decades, she has been consistently astute in identifying and developing literary talent. Her primary goal is the strategic management of writers' careers, with an eye to both front-list success and enduring sales. She brings in-depth "insider" knowledge of the industry from her prior editorial and executive publishing positions at Random House and HarperCollins to literary representation. She is a member of AAR (Association of Authors’ Representatives).

Clients include:

New York Times bestselling author Missy Chase Lapine and her SNEAKY CHEF cook book series. (Running Press/Perseus Publishing)
New York Times' bestselling writer and crusader for the rights of foster and adopted children, Ashley Rhodes-Courter. In THREE LITTLE WORDS, she recounts the true story of her childhood odyssey in 14 foster homes before being adopted at age 12. (Simon & Schuster) THREE LITTLE WORDS has been optioned for film.
Pulitzer-Prize winning Wall Street Journal writer Geeta Anand, author of THE CURE: How A Father Raised $100 million – And Bucked the Medical Establishment – In a Quest to Save His Children, soon to be a major motion picture by CBS Studios starring Harrison Ford and Brendan Frasier. It is expected to be released in early 2010. (HarperCollins)
Randall Smith, Pulitzer-Prize winner and Wall Street Journal financial writer. His upcoming book is BUBBLE MASTER, which investigates the case of Frank Quattrone, a Wall Street banker implicated in the creation and crash of the tech bubble. He and a colleague won a George Polk Award for their previous writing on the case.
George Polk Award-winning journalist and Wall Street Journal financial editor and reporter, Ellen Schultz. In her new book, RETIREMENT HEIST, she will reveal the shocking way American corporations use workers’ retirement benefits for their own profit. (2010 from Portfolio/Penguin)
Chris Farrell, host of public radio’s Marketplace and Sound Money and contributing economics editor at Business Week. His all too timely book, THE NEW FRUGALITY offers innovative strategies for ordinary Americans to deal with recessionary times – and live well even as they must adapt to live within their means. (2010 Bloomsbury USA)
Food industry insider and marketer Hank J. Cardello whose book STUFFED: Who’s (Really) Making America Fat takes the industry to task for pushing foods that contribute to the soaring rates worldwide in heart disease and diabetes and offers hard-hitting solutions that can benefit both the consumer and companies. (2009 Ecco/HarperCollins)
Former UBS Paine Weber chief, Joseph J. Grano, Jr., who in YOU CAN’T PREDICT A HERO offers six lessons in courage, leadership and determination drawn from a life that has included leading Green Berets on classified missions, steering dispirited brokers after the 1987 crash, and helping to reopen Wall Street after 9/11 as chair of the President's Security Advisory Council. (Fall 2009/Jossey-Bass/Wiley)
Top-rated, nationally syndicated business blogger and consultant, Pamela Slim’s comprehensive guide to making the leap to entrepreneur, ESCAPE FROM CUBICLE NATION: From Corporate Prisoner to Thriving Entrepreneur. The book mixes tried and true tips with true stories from both sides of the fence. (April 2009/Penguin Portfolio/Berkley)
Popular historian Julie M. Fenster, whose book THE CASE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN draws on a case that Lincoln tried as a lawyer in 1856, involving a love triangle and murder by poison, to reveal the man who would become one of the most memorable and important presidents of the United States. (2007 Palgrave-Macmillan)
Michele Borba, Ed.D., internationally renowned and award-winning parenting and education expert and Today Show and iVillage contributor. She is the author of many successful parenting books. Her latest is THE BIG BOOK OF PARENTING SOLUTIONS: 101 Answers to Your Everyday Challenges and Wildest Worries from Preschool to Tween (Fall 2009/Jossey-Bass/John Wiley Publishers)
Novelist Bob Mitchell, author of MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN, in which fifty-year old Elliot, victim of a heart attack, is challenged by God to a game of golf –if Elliot wins, he will live – and learns about winning and losing, living and dying, and about the greatest game of them all. Mitchell’s second novel, ONCE UPON A FASTBALL, sends a Harvard professor back in time to four of the most famous games in baseball history, in the process learning the truth about a family secret. Both books have been optioned for the movies. (Kensington Publishers)
Duke University Medical Center Chief of Biological Psychiatry P. Murali Doraiswamy and Lisa Gwyther, co-founder and head of the Alzheimer’s Family Support Program at Duke and a past president of the Gerontological Society of America, who combine their expertise in THE ALZHEIMER ACTION PLAN. Patients and their families are guided through everything they need to know about Alzheimer’s from early warning signs of memory loss to clinical trials and treatment.

Joëlle Delbourgo was Senior Vice-President, Editor-in-Chief and Associate Publisher of HarperCollins, Adult Trade Division. Previously, she spent over fifteen years in various editorial and executive posts at Ballantine Books, a division of Random House. She has been a speaker and instructor writing conferences and workshops worldwide.

Joëlle holds a Master of the Arts in English and Comparative Literature with Honors from Columbia University, and a Bachelor of the Arts from Williams College, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa with a double concentration in History and English Literature. Born in Alexandria, Egypt, she has lived on three continents, is fluent in French, and considers herself to be a citizen of the world.