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 Fellow Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; New York Times columnist Charles Blow; Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer; Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post critic Robin Givhan; journalist Steven Brill; journalist and pundit Jonathan Alter; 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, Shawn McCreesh, Michael Grynbaum, and New York Times Editorial Board member Jesse Wegman; 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; journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault; Ms. magazine co-founder Letty Cottin Pogrebin; opera legend Jessye Norman; musicians Mark Ronson and Nile Rodgers; model/activist Emily Ratajkowski; 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, 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 (where he also edited a dozen 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.

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