William Reiss

About the Agent

William Reiss has been in this firm since 1971. At the time he joined our ranks, we were in the Scribner building on 48th Street and 5th Avenue. Rooms were divided by partitions that reached two-thirds the height of each room. Bill’s training regimen was to eavesdrop and ask questions, and he still does. He has a penchant for junk food, historical narratives, biography, slightly off-beat fiction (Wicked by Gregory Maguire, Paint It Black by Janet Fitch) and nonfiction, children’s books (Stoner & Spaz by Ron Koertge), nature writing (Living at the End of Time by John H. Mitchell). He is also (in his own words) a lazy, neo-Luddite, and is waiting for electronic communication to be so user-friendly that it will become even simpler say, than telephoning (which he doesn’t like to do either).

Represented authors

• M.P. Barker
• Tamara Siler Jones
• James W Ziskin