David Kuhn
David Kuhn has represented Amy Schumer’s #1 New York Times bestseller The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo and Liaquat Ahamed’s Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, as well as books by Pulitzer prize-winner and National Book Award nominee Louis Menand; scholar, television producer and presenter, and MacArthur Genius Award recipient Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; New York Times columnist Charles Blow; filmmaker Bong Joon-ho, director of Parasite; Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post critic Robin Givhan; comedian-writer-actors Jessi Klein, Casey Wilson, June Diane Raphael, Paul Scheer, and David Steinberg; New Yorker editor/writer Mary Norris; New Yorker Features Director Susan Morrison; New York Times reporters Jeremy Peters, Vanessa Friedman, and Michael Grynbaum, and New York Times Editorial Board member Jesse Wegman; former New Yorker Cartoon Editor Bob Mankoff; performance artist Marina Abramovic; legal scholar and activist Kimberlé Crenshaw; journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault; Ms. magazine co-founder Letty Cottin Pogrebin; opera legend Jessye Norman; musician and producer Mark Ronson; model/activist Emily Ratajkowski; lawyer and journalist Steven Brill; fashion designers Isaac Mizrahi, Zac Posen, Betsey Johnson, and Patricia Field; Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI); former Congressman Steve Israel; actor and environmentalist Ted Danson; actor-writers Gabourey Sidibe, John Lithgow, Pamela Anderson, Lili Taylor, Julianne Moore, Jim Carey, Parker Posey, Gina Gershon, Griffin Dunne, and Rosie Perez; and institutions including New York magazine, and The Wall Street Journal.
Kuhn graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College and worked for many years as a magazine editor. He was Senior Editor at Vanity Fair, Features Director at The New Yorker (where he also edited the “Talk of the Town” and “Shout & Murmurs” pages as well as a dozen of the magazine’s non-fiction Special Issues), and Editor in Chief at Brill’s Content. In 2002, he founded Kuhn Projects, which merged with Zachary Shuster Harmsworth in 2016 to form Aevitas.
Kuhn, based in New York, represents nonfiction books that will educate, entertain, and enlighten in the areas of memoir, current events, history, politics, culture, style, food, music, and entertainment.
Represents
Editing
Together in a Sudden Strangeness
Cure-All: Diagnosing the Modern Wellness Epidemic
My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives
Distilled: An Insider’s Search for the Best American Whiskey, Bourbon, and Rye
Original Sin
For Myself and Others: A Memoir
Talking Funny
Other Fronts: Dwight Eisenhower, Kay Summersby, and the Women of the General’s Inner Circle During World War II
The Roaring Girl: The Untold Story of Carolyn Bessette
Untitled on Ulysses
A Necessary Amnesia
Untitled Nonfiction Book
My Body: Essays
Hong Kong Confidential
Red Carpet: Inside China’s Takeover of Hollywood and the 21st-Century Fight for Cultural Supremacy
Empire: Star Wars and the World It Built
The Phoenix Economy
The Collected Essays of Zora Neale Hurston
American Rascal
The President and the Oligarch
Thank You, Jesus: A History of the Black Church
The Bordeaux Royal Academy of Science Manuscripts: Snapshots of the Birth of Race, 1741
Searching for Du Bois
The Collected Essays of Zora Neale Hurston
Annotated Edition of Alain Locke’s The New Negro: An Interpretation
Tanaquil: Le Clercq, Balanchine, and a Life at the Forefront of the 20th Century
Picasso’s Dealer
Love's Warriors: The Sacred Band of Thebes, Last of the Greek Heroes
Ancient Lives Series
Plato And The Tyrant
UNTITLED FRAGMENTS OF WISDOM
Insurgency: The Inside Story of the Battle for the Soul of the Republican Party
The Lost Founder: James Wilson and the Dream of a New America
Spoken Word: A Cultural History
The Study of Human Life
THE ORBIT OF OUR DREAMING
THE WORLD IS FULL OF BEAUTIFUL QUIET THINGS
Untitled John Ashbery Biography
Untitled Jane Freilicher Biography
A Thousand Dollars For A Kiss, Fifty Cents For Your Soul
JEAN STEIN: An American Scene
SayHerName: Black Women’s Stories of State Violence and Public Silence
Backtalker: A Memoir
Under the Blacklight: The Intersectional Vulnerabilities that the Twin Pandemics Lay Bare (Editor)
Untitled Visual Book
Untitled Work of History
Flyways
Black and White: How Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison Defeated Slavery
A Terrible Swift Sword
Zora Neale Hurston Significations Volume
Untitled Collection
Squirrel Hill
Unititled
Untitled Memoir
Empire of the Elite
New York, NY 10010
