Selections from the Backlist

The Scott Meredith Literary Agency has sold more than 10,000 books since 1946 - and arranged more than 15,000 foreign licenses.
Of those, more than 1,500 titles are still in print today reporting royalties in one edition or another from a United States or foreign publisher.
In all cases, the Agency continues to collect a commission for the life of copyright. Those titles or authors marked with an * are still represented by the Agency today.

*Michael Bloomberg - Bloomberg by Bloomberg. The book served as a platform for the author and his company here and around the world and, accidentally, as a credentials document for his campaign for Mayor of New York. Arthur Klebanoff worked on this project for seven years.

*Bill Bradley - The New American Story was supported with unique efforts on gather.com, accordingtoamerica .com via Quinstreet, a set of You Tube placements and a television advertising campaign from Spot Runner. Time Present, Time Past is Bill Bradley's widely praised memoir of his eighteen years in the US Senate. Values of the Game has a short compelling text which relates the lessons of basketball to the lessons of life and becomes a compelling piece of his Presidential resume. All become major bestsellers.

Marion Zimmer Bradley - The Mists of Avalon plus 40 other books. Marion Zimmer Bradley is a legendary fantasy and science fiction writer revered worldwide. The Mists of Avalon is her telling of the story of King Arthur. TNT's miniseries based on the book was a major international success.

Arthur C. Clarke - 2001: A Space Odyssey and Childhood's End, plus 50 other books. Scott Meredith guided the career of Arthur C. Clarke for many decades. No single writer has had a greater impact on science fiction writing.

Court TV - Murder in Room 103 by Harriet Ryan is Court TV's most recent publishing experiment.

David Goodis - Dark Passage, Shoot the Piano Player, and 16 other novels. Master of the noir thriller, ten of Goodis' novels have been made into films.
 

Philip K. Dick - We Can Remember it for You Wholesale (filmed as Total Recall) and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (filmed as Blade Runner) plus thirty-five other books. No single science fiction writer has seen more of his novels and short stories produced as major motion pictures (recently Minority Report).

Ernest Gann - Fate is the Hunter, The High and the Mighty among his 22 books. Many of Ernest Gann's action novels became widely acclaimed action movies.

*Linda Goodman (estate) - Sun Signs, Love Signs, Star Signs, Relationship Signs. Linda Goodman popularized astrology with the publication of Sun Signs in the late 1960's. Love Signs set every record in sight for non-fiction when published in the late 1970's. All of her books continue as perennial backlist titles both in the United States and around the world. There are more than 100,000,000 copies of her work in print.

*H. R. Haldeman (estate) - Haldeman's Diaries. This is the first title with a simultaneous CD-ROM to hit the New York Times bestseller lists. Nightline opened up back to back 45 minute specials to broadcast taped excerpts from the dictated diaries. Watergate might have been an even bigger explosion had the existence of these diaries been known before Haldeman was released from prison.

Alex Haley (estate) - Roots The 30th anniversary edition of the book that changed America (rootsthebook.com) features the first trade paperback edition, audio book, e-book and extensive Web efforts. Fully coordinated with Warner Brothers' Home Video launch of the DVD set of the Roots miniseries. National placements in Reader's Digest, Parade and Playboy.com as part of a full publicity campaign.

Jackie Collins - The Stud. Scott Meredith sold this first book of Jackie Collins in the United States. Decades later, Arthur Klebanoff re-sold the rights to Pocket Books to be reunited with the entire Jackie Collins line (on which he had worked during his years with Mort Janklow).

*H. P. Janson and Anthony Janson - History of Art. Prentice Hall and Viking have a wide range of formats and updated editions for this forty year old category leading art history program.
 

*Joseph Jaworski - Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership. A classic business leadership book.

*Paul Krugman - The New York Times columnist, bestselling author and winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics, transforms the debate . . .

*Sheila Lukins (estate) - Silver Palate, Silver Palate Good Times and New Basic Cookbook (all with Julee Rosso); All Around the World Cookbook, USA Cookbook and Celebrate! Twenty five years after the publication of The Silver Palate Cookbook (which one observer said "changed the way America cooks") Sheila Lukins is a legend in her own time. Her books have sold over 6,000,000 copies. Her 25 year monthly column as Food Editor of Parade Magazine reached over 75,000,000 readers per issue.

Norman Mailer - The Executioner's Song, Armies of the Night, Ancient Evenings and 14 other books. Scott Meredith changed the face of international rights dealing for American fiction with Norman Mailer's books over the years. When Bertelsmann acquired Random House, Norman Mailer's was one of the prominent backlists cited in the various news accounts.

*Mayo Clinic - Arthur Klebanoff has represented Mayo Clinic's consumer health information publishing program for nearly fifteen years. The flagship book - Mayo Clinic's Family Health Book - has sold over 1,500,000 copies. Today Mayo Clinic is a leader in direct marketing of its health information books to consumers and their Web site - www.mayoclinic.com is frequently cited as one of the best on the Web. Their most recent major trade bestseller is The Mayo Clinic Diet.

Ed McBain - 20 87th Precinct mysteries. Scott Meredith first sold The Blackboard Jungle for Evan Hunter (the other writing name for Ed McBain) and later sold the initial titles in this major detective series.

Daniel P. Moynihan - A Dangerous Place. Senator Daniel P. Moynihan often represented himself, but Arthur Klebanoff sold a series of books for him as agent, including this account of his service as our representative to the United Nations. The cover image - a famous photograph of Moynihan vetoing the "Zionism is a form of racism" resolution - became the platform image of his campaign for Senate in 1976.

New York Philharmonic Archives - A book on the 50th anniversary of Leonard Bernstein becoming Music Director, published on what would have been his 90th birthday.
 
 

Richard Nixon - In the Arena, Seize the Moment, seven title Presidential Library set. In the Arena was Richard Nixon's post-presidential memoir (cover of Time Magazine; an audio book of "Nixon on tape.") As one of the most prolific non-fiction bestselling writers of the post-World War II era, Richard Nixon had experience with three agents - Swifty Lazar, Mort Janklow and Arthur Klebanoff.

Don Pendleton - The Executioner Series. 300 titles and 50,000,000 copies - the classic example of "line publishing" with a continuing character.

*Roger Tory Peterson (estate) - Field Guide to the Birds, 5th Edition (the 1934 edition was named one of the most important books of the 20th century by the New York Public Library), The Art and Photography of Roger Tory Peterson, The Field Guide Art of Roger Tory Peterson and general advice concerning the Field Guide series (80+ titles from Houghton Mifflin). The program is one of the largest backlist efforts of Houghton Mifflin. Roger Tory Peterson popularize birding in the United States and during his lifetime one every major honor there was to award in the world of nature - culminating in the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Harvard sponsors an annual lecture in his memory - the Roger Tory Peterson Institute for Natural History in Jamestown, New York (www.rtpi.org) seeks to inspire the teaching of nature to young people.

Ellery Queen - The Roman Hat Mystery, 62 title series. These pseudonymous books, a collaboration of two authors who entered a contest, set the standard for mystery series with a continuing character.
 

Carl Sagan - Cosmos (the 13 part PBS show is one of the most watched PBS shows ever), Contact (written with his wife Anne Druyan) and five other books. Carl Sagan helped to popularize the study of science and astronomy - Scott Meredith guided nearly his entire career.

*Chuck Schumer - From the Senator who engineered the Democratic takeover of the Senate - a battle plan for recapturing the middle class.

*Presence by Peter Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski and Betty Sue Flowers.
This extraordinary business leadership book is creating an international stir.
Peter Senge is a senior lecturer at MIT, the founding chairman of the Society for Organizational Learning (the publisher of the book) and the accalaimed author of The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization.

Robert Silverberg - Lord Valentine's Castle and 18 other books. This giant of science fiction novelists is typical of the quality science fiction writing the Scott Meredith Literary Agency sold for decades.

Art Spiegelman - Maus. One of the definitive books about the Holocaust - and spectacularly realized through line drawings.

*The Michel Thomas Language Program has been the leader in audio language training in the UK for many years with Hodder and Stoughton. The program is expanding in North America and France.

B. Traven - Treasure of the Sierra Madre. The classic novel which became a film widely recognized as one of the greatest 100 movies ever made.

Margaret Truman - Murder at the National Gallery and 12 other Capital Crimes mysteries. Harry and Bess Truman's daughter successfully published this series of mysteries. Scott Meredith pioneered in this form - and successfully placed many other celebrity mystery projects.

*James Q. Wilson - American Government, a leading political science text. Arthur Klebanoff has advised James Q. Wilson about the initial arrangements and revised editions of this highly successful text.