J. de S. Associates, Inc.

ABOUT

Jacques de Spoelberch founded his literary agency in 1975 after being an editor at Houghton Mifflin both in Boston and New York, and having been the first Editorial Director of International Literary Management in New York.

Mr. de Spoelberch's interests, as editor and agent, have been broad-based . . .  generalist fiction and non-fiction, both literary and commercial, but with the occasional penchant towards the mischievous, the comedic, the idiosyncratic, and even the noir.

Recent books handled by his agency include Jon Michael Varese’s wondrous novel The Spirit Photographer, Jasmine Aimaq’s moving international novel The Opium Prince, scholar Henry Hart’s fascinating study Seamus Heaney’s Gifts, and Heather Clark’s debut novel The Scrapbook, following her magisterial Red Comet: The Short Life And Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, a Pulitzer Prize finalist.

J. de S. Associates has corresponding agents abroad, and a performance rights agent in Los Angeles.