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Michael Signorelli

Michael Signorelli is an agent at Aevitas Creative Management, where he represents literary and commercial fiction as well as nonfiction in cultural history, current affairs, memoir, politics, science, sports, and technology. He joined the agency after working as an editor at HarperCollins Publishers and a senior editor at Henry Holt & Company.

He has published New York Times bestsellers and winners or finalists of the Booker Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Phi Beta Kappa Science Award, the Commonwealth Book Prize, the Lambda Literary Award, and the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize. He has worked with authors such as Nicola Barker, Christopher Bonanos, Philip Caputo, Brandi Collins-Dexter, Dennis Cooper, Dan Chaon, Joan Donovan, Jack Devine, Catherine Ryan Howard, Oksana Masters, Ian McGuire, Hannah Nordhaus, Lisa O'Donnell, Justin Taylor, Simon Van Booy, Marilyn Yalom, and many others.

Signorelli graduated from Hamilton College and lives with his family in Scarsdale, New York.

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