"Jean established the Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc. in 1978 in New York City, where she had previously worked as an editor and translator. Her eclectic, broad-ranging taste in fiction and nonfiction has led to many award-winning titles and numerous best-sellers. She is considered an ace strategist by her clients, and has sold a wide range of fiction and nonfiction.

She is also an author, whose poetry has been featured in The Listener and Athanor, and who has been published in The New York Times, the Village Voice, Publishers Weekly, and Writers Digest. Her memoir of an usual childhood, SIPPING FROM THE NILE: My Exodus from Egypt, was published by Stony Creek Press in 2008. Click here for more.

Jean's list includes the Earth's Children series by Jean M. Auel, the novels of Mary McGarry Morris, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Sarah Waters, Nancy Willard, Lily Prior, Ellis Avery and Teri Coyne, the thrillers of Phillip Margolin, the mysteries of Ingrid Parker, Christopher Sansom, Gillian Roberts and Morag Joss, the historical novels of Karleen Koen, Jay Schauer, Donna Cross, David Ball and Judith Merkle Riley, literary narrative nonfiction of Carl Safina (winner of a McArthur award and a Lannan Award), science and philosophy by Robert Pollack and Ed Regis, the poetry of award nominees Linda Pastan and Nancy Willard and the sophisticated self-help of Carol Lindquist and Joe Luciani.

Jean is a member of the International Women's Forum, the Women's Media Group, PEN, and the AAR (Association of Authors' Representatives). A former president of the AAR, she served on its board for many years and continues to be active in various committees.

Jean manages a full list of clients. She is not actively taking on new authors."