Brian DeFiore

About the Agent

Brian DeFiore began his career in publishing in 1981 as an editor at St. Martin's Press. In 1988 he moved to Dell Publishing as senior editor, quickly moving up to the position of Vice President and Editorial Director of Delacorte Press. In 1992 he joined The Walt Disney Company's start-up publishing operation, Hyperion, where he served for five years as Associate Publisher and Editor-in-Chief. In 1997, he took over the Villard Books division of Random House as Senior Vice President and Publisher. Some of the authors Brian worked with as an editor and publisher include Ridley Pearson, T. Jefferson Parker, James Lee Burke, Ken Follett, Daniel Silva, Eve Ensler, Jon Krakauer, Jack Olsen, Leonard Nimoy, Jesse Green, Roger Kahn, M. Scott Peck, Linda Barnes and Bill Carter. Brian started the agency in 1999, with a goal to create an editorially-driven agency that served the talents of its clients and its staff by bringing together creative, innovative, enterprising and dynamic agents to work collaboratively and boldly to help shape and market books with impact. And indeed, since its inception, DeFiore and Company has had the honor of representing dozens of bestselling, award winning, and culture-shaping writers and influencers. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Association of Authors Representatives, as the Chair of the AAR Electronic Rights Committee, and on the faculty of The Center for Publishing at New York University.

Represented authors

• Bernie Brillstein
• Rachel Manija Brown
• Ivana Chubbuck
• Kim Dower
• Steve Ettlinger
• Donna Fish
• Ronald Glassman
• Adena Halpern
• Tony Jeary
• Loretta Laroche
• Jimmy Lerner
• Ronna Lichtenberg
• Lou Manfredini
• Keith Raffel
• David Rensin
• Linda Rosenkrantz
• Pamela Satran
• Bill Shapiro
• Jason Starr
• Michael Walker
• Frank Warren
• Richard Yancey