Todd Shuster represents such authors as journalist Liza Mundy, author of the New York Times bestselling Code Girls; actress Grace Byers, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling picture book I Am Enough; Andrew McCabe, former Deputy Director of the FBI and author of the #1 New York Times bestselling The Threat; Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa, authors of His Name Is George Floyd, a Finalist for the 2022 National Book Award; Cody Keenan, Chief White House Speechwriter for President Obama and author of the New York Times bestselling Grace; Marisa Franco, author of the New York Times bestselling psychology book Platonic; and Martin “Marty” Baron, former Executive Editor of The Washington Post and author of the forthcoming investigative narrative Collision of Power (Fall, 2023).
Todd has also represented major national newspapers in connection with group-reported books, including The Boston Globe on such titles as Last Lion, Whitey, and Long Mile Home and The Washington Post on such titles as the #1 New York Times bestselling The Mueller Report, the #1 NewYork Times bestselling The Afghanistan Papers, and Trump on Trial.
As an agent, Todd has helped shepherd films to the big screen including Wild, starring Reese Witherspoon, and The Pursuit of Happyness, starring Will Smith. Todd recently served as Executive Producer of the Netflix-released feature film The Midnight Sky, directed by and starring George Clooney.
Following college at Yale and law school at Northeastern University, Shuster practiced publishing and entertainment law at the law firms of Palmer & Dodge and Ropes & Gray. He co-founded the literary agency Zachary Shuster Harmsworth, which merged with Kuhn Projects to form Aevitas in 2016.
Based in New York, Shuster represents both fiction and nonfiction. His nonfiction list primarily focuses on current affairs, politics and civil rights, health and wellness, memoir, business, and history. His fiction list includes both literary and commercial novels, including mysteries and thrillers.
Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities
Do What I Say, Not Who I Did: All the Sex Advice No One Tells You Before You Go to College
Sensitive: The Power of a Soft Heart in an Era of Heartlessness
Each and Every Day
Beauty and Beast
Untitled Memoir
Untitled Memoir
We Don't Even Know You Anymore: A Journey in the Heart, Science, Politics, and Possibility of Change
Happy Place
Weed the People: A Journey Into America’s Legalized Future
Fighting the Good War
Kamala's Way
Our Fathers: The Secret Life of the Catholic Church
Morning in America
Supersight
Rockaway: Surfing Headlong Into a New Life
Portrait of Plunder
The Power of Parting
How To Be Enough: The Definitive Guide to Self-Acceptance for Self-Critics, Perfectionists, Overthinkers, and Everyone with an Internal Cattle Prod
The Walk Home
Trippy
Free To Be
Elizabeth Takes Off
It’s Better to Laugh
Now You Know
What’s So Funny?
Oona: Living in the Shadows
The Purest Bond
Sensitive: The Power of a Soft Heart in an Era of Heartlessness
Super Learners
Citizen Kim
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The First Antarctic Winter and the Science of Survival
Neptune's Random
Sacred Landscapes
First to Fall: Elijah Lovejoy's Fight for a Free Press in the Age of Slavery
Lethal Beauty
Triple Threat
Winning Every Time
The Truth Advantage
What Are We Fighting About?
Untitled Workbook
The Dream And The Hope
Learning America
From Here
Platonic: How to Make and Keep Friends As An Adult
Chasing Icebergs: How Frozen Freshwater Can Save the Planet
Two Beats Ahead: What Great Musical Minds Teach Us About Innovation
The $10 Trillion Prize