Jillian Manus

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Jillian Manus is a literary agent. She is president of Manus and Associates Literary Agency[1], which has offices in Palo Alto, California, and New York City, and she has represented best-selling authors including Mark Victor Hansen, Doug Wead, Kenneth T. Walsh and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

Before starting Manus and Associates, she was a television agent at International Creative Management, director of development at Warner Brothers and at Universal Studios, vice president of media acquisitions at Trender AG, and associate publisher at two national magazines covering entertainment and technology. She is also a speaker on writing, women in business, politics and media.

Manus is on the Board of Trustees of New York University, the Dean's Council at the Tisch School of the Arts, the board of W.I.S.H. List (Women in the Senate and House), and the advisory board at the Stanford University Cancer Center.

Manus, the mother of three, is married to Alan Salzman, founding partner of Vantage Point Venture Partners[2].

[edit] External links

• Literary Agent Jillian Manus. Writers.net. Retrieved on 2008-05-04.
• Jenna Schnuer. When the Bottom Line Isn't the Bottom Line. American Way. Retrieved on 2008-05-04.