Chris Clemans

About the Agent

Chris Clemans received his BA in English from Duke University, with a minor in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics. After internships at The New Republic and The New York Observer, he began his career in publishing at William Morris Endeavor. In 2014, he left WME to help start The Clegg Agency, where he became an agent. He joined Janklow & Nesbit in 2018. Chris’s authors have become instant New York Times bestsellers and been honored with numerous awards and distinctions, including a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” honor, a National Book Award in Fiction longlist selection, a PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel longlist selection, a Chicago Review of Books Award in Fiction, an Andy Warhol Arts Writers Grant, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, a Barnes & Noble Book of the Year finalist selection, a Barns & Noble Discover selection, a Center for Fiction First Novel Prize longlist selection, a Chicago Writer’s Association Book of the Year Award, a New American Press Fiction Prize, a Heartland Booksellers Award in Fiction finalist selection, multiple High Plains Book Awards in Fiction, multiple New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice selections, and multiple Best Books of the Year selections from The New York Times, NPR, Vogue, and Chicago Tribune, and others.

Represented authors

• Shastri Amelia
• Phillip Lewis