Endeavor-owned WME has acquired the Ross Yoon Agency, a Washington, D.C.-based literary firm.
As part of the transaction, Ross Yoon’s President Gail Ross and Principal Howard Yoon will join WME as partners. The move bulks up WME’s book business, adding a roster of literary and commercial non-fiction authors, and also gives the agency a presence in Washington.
Among the genres repped by Ross Yoon are memoir, biography, history, popular science, business and psychology. The agency’s clients, including Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists and authors, business and non-profit leaders, top doctors and scientists, academics, politicians, and media personalities, will join WME’s roster.
“This acquisition is a natural evolution of WME’s long history of representing best-selling authors and helping bring their visions to life across platforms,” said WME Co-Chairmen Christian Muirhead and Richard Weitz in a press release. “We are proud that after so many hugely successful...
As part of the transaction, Ross Yoon’s President Gail Ross and Principal Howard Yoon will join WME as partners. The move bulks up WME’s book business, adding a roster of literary and commercial non-fiction authors, and also gives the agency a presence in Washington.
Among the genres repped by Ross Yoon are memoir, biography, history, popular science, business and psychology. The agency’s clients, including Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists and authors, business and non-profit leaders, top doctors and scientists, academics, politicians, and media personalities, will join WME’s roster.
“This acquisition is a natural evolution of WME’s long history of representing best-selling authors and helping bring their visions to life across platforms,” said WME Co-Chairmen Christian Muirhead and Richard Weitz in a press release. “We are proud that after so many hugely successful...
- 6/2/2023
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
Talent agency WME is establishing a foothold inside the Beltway.
The Beverly Hills-based representation giant has acquired the literary agency Ross Yoon, the company said on Friday. Led by Gail Ross and Howard Yoon, the agency focuses on the non-fiction space, and has a roster of author clients including Time journalist Molly Ball, Mother Jones’ D.C. chief David Corn, New York Times columnist Ezra Klein, Politico Playbook writer Ryan Lizza, Washington Post columnist Karen Tumulty, Vanity Fair correspondent Gabriel Sherman and many others.
As part of the deal — financial terms weren’t disclosed — Ross and Yoon will join WME as partners and bring agent Ethan Bassoff and coordinator Dara Kaye with them. A media lawyer in addition to founding the literary agency, Ross is also a partner at law firm Trister, Ross, Schadler & Gold in D.C. Yoon, a former adjunct professor at Georgetown University as well as author and book consultant,...
The Beverly Hills-based representation giant has acquired the literary agency Ross Yoon, the company said on Friday. Led by Gail Ross and Howard Yoon, the agency focuses on the non-fiction space, and has a roster of author clients including Time journalist Molly Ball, Mother Jones’ D.C. chief David Corn, New York Times columnist Ezra Klein, Politico Playbook writer Ryan Lizza, Washington Post columnist Karen Tumulty, Vanity Fair correspondent Gabriel Sherman and many others.
As part of the deal — financial terms weren’t disclosed — Ross and Yoon will join WME as partners and bring agent Ethan Bassoff and coordinator Dara Kaye with them. A media lawyer in addition to founding the literary agency, Ross is also a partner at law firm Trister, Ross, Schadler & Gold in D.C. Yoon, a former adjunct professor at Georgetown University as well as author and book consultant,...
- 6/2/2023
- by Erik Hayden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The superstar Gop senator reveals he suffered sexual abuse in his new memoir. Samuel P. Jacobs on his new book and the beginning of Brown's re-election campaign.
In Brookline, Mass., the hometown of Michael Dukakis, John F. Kennedy, and liberals of all persuasions, the owners of Brookline Booksmith, a local institution, are scrambling. They only ordered six copies of Republican Sen. Scott Brown's new memoir, due out on Tuesday. With word that the memoir contains revelations about the future senator suffering sexual abuse as a child, the bookseller knows that interest in the politician's memoir is likely to exceed its current supply.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Scott Brown's Wall Street Shuffle
The book, titled Against All Odds, is the first time Brown has told the story. During the campaign, the former state senator and underdog candidate did open up about the abuse that he suffered at...
In Brookline, Mass., the hometown of Michael Dukakis, John F. Kennedy, and liberals of all persuasions, the owners of Brookline Booksmith, a local institution, are scrambling. They only ordered six copies of Republican Sen. Scott Brown's new memoir, due out on Tuesday. With word that the memoir contains revelations about the future senator suffering sexual abuse as a child, the bookseller knows that interest in the politician's memoir is likely to exceed its current supply.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Scott Brown's Wall Street Shuffle
The book, titled Against All Odds, is the first time Brown has told the story. During the campaign, the former state senator and underdog candidate did open up about the abuse that he suffered at...
- 2/18/2011
- by Samuel P. Jacobs
- The Daily Beast
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