About David
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 New York Times columnist Charles Blow; Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post critic Robin Givhan; comedy writer Jessi Klein; New Yorker editor/writer Mary Norris; New York Times reporters Jeremy Peters and Vanessa Friedman; former New Yorker Cartoon Editor Bob Mankoff; performance artist Marina Abramovic; feminist and lawyer Linda Hirshman; Ms. magazine co-founder Letty Cottin Pogrebin; opera legend Jessye Norman; lawyer and journalist Steven Brill; scholar and television producer Henry Louis Gates Jr.; fashion designers Isaac Mizrahi, Zac Posen, and Betsey Johnson; former New York City Schools Chancellor Dr. Rudy Crew; Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI); former Congressman Steve Israel; actor and environmentalist Ted Danson; actor-writers Gabourey Sidibe, John Lithgow, Julianne Moore, Parker Posey, and Rosie Perez; and institutions including New York magazine, The Women’s March, 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 the “Talk of the Town†and “Shout & Murmurs†pages as well as a dozen of the magazine’s 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.
