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 Fellow Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer; Senator Sheldon Whitehouse; Congressman Ro Khanna; former Congressman Steve Israel; Pulitzer Prize winner and Washington Post critic Robin Givhan; journalists Steven Brill, Jonathan Alter, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, and Craig Unger; New Yorker writer Mary Norris; New Yorker Features Director Susan Morrison; New York Times columnist Charles Blow; New York Times reporters Jeremy Peters, Vanessa Friedman, Shawn McCreesh, Michael Grynbaum, and New York Times Editorial Board member Jesse Wegman; Wall Street Journal reporters Erich Schwartzel, Stacy Meichtry, and Nick Kostov; comedian-writer-actors Jessi Klein, Casey Wilson, June Diane Raphael, Paul Scheer, and David Steinberg; former New Yorker Cartoon Editor Bob Mankoff; visual artist David Salle; performance artist Marina Abramovic; legal scholar and activist Kimberlé Crenshaw; feminist, activist, and MacArthur Genius Fellow Loretta Ross; Ms. magazine co-founder Letty Cottin Pogrebin; EMILYs List founder Ellen Malcolm; opera legend Jessye Norman; musicians Mark Ronson and Nile Rodgers; model/activist Emily Ratajkowski; visual artist and stage director Robert Wilson; composer and lyricist Stephen Schwartz; theatre producer Jeffrey Seller; fashion historian Hamish Bowles; fashion designers Isaac Mizrahi, Zac Posen, Betsey Johnson, and Patricia Field; actor and environmentalist Ted Danson; actor-writers America Ferrera, Andrew McCarthy, Gabourey Sidibe, John Lithgow, Pamela Anderson, Lili Taylor, Julianne Moore, Jim Carey, Joel Grey, Parker Posey, Gina Gershon, Griffin Dunne, Tatum O'Neal, 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, and Editor in Chief at Brill’s Content.
How to be Well
Distilled: An Insider’s Search for the Best American Whiskey, Bourbon, and Rye
The Fourth Branch
For Myself and Others: A Memoir
Other Fronts: Dwight Eisenhower, Kay Summersby, and the Women of the General’s Inner Circle During World War II
Untitled Nonfiction Book
Hong Kong Confidential
Empire: Star Wars and the World It Built
Woman of Steele
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
The Lost Founder: James Wilson and the Dream of a New America
We Got This: How Our Best Friends Bring Us Joy, Keep Us Sane, and Save Our Lives
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
Backtalker: A Memoir
Under the Blacklight: The Intersectional Vulnerabilities that the Twin Pandemics Lay Bare (Editor)
Untitled Work of History
A Terrible Swift Sword
Zora Neale Hurston Significations Volume
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