Todd Shuster represents numerous prestigious authors including legendary former Washington Post Executive Editor Marty Baron and author of Collision of Power; actress Grace Byers who wrote the mega-bestselling children’s picture book I Am Enough; Andrew McCabe, former Deputy Director of the FBI who wrote the #1 NYT bestseller, The Threat; Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa, authors of His Name Is George Floyd, a Finalist for the 2022 National Book Award; and Cody Keenan, Chief White House Speechwriter for President Obama and author of the New York Times bestselling Grace.
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.
Exhumed: Unearthing the Roots of the American Vampire
Dads on Duty: How to Raise a Newborn, Keep Your Sanity, and Level Up Your Fatherhood Game
Each and Every Day
Beauty and Beast
We Don't Even Know You Anymore: A Journey in the Heart, Science, Politics, and Possibility of Change
Weed the People: A Journey Into America’s Legalized Future
The Big Trace
Fighting the Good War
Broken: A Story of Family, Snake Pits, and the Politics of Our Nation’s Mental Healthcare Mess
The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the-Century America
Our Fathers: The Secret Life of the Catholic Church
Morning in America
Portrait of Plunder
The Power of Parting
The Lazy Day
The Walk Home
Elizabeth Takes Off
It’s Better to Laugh
Now You Know
What’s So Funny?
Oona: Living in the Shadows
Super Learners
The Last Supper
Blue Marilyn
Citizen Kim
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The First Antarctic Winter and the Science of Survival
Neptune's Random
Lethal Beauty
Triple Threat
Winning Every Time
The Truth Advantage
The Dream And The Hope