Jacquelyn Mitchard's Summer Scribes presents Folio literary agent Jeff Kleinman

Jacquelyn Mitchard's Summer Scribes series welcome Folio Literary Agent Jeff Kleinman.  

Jeff Kleinman:  So this is what I love more than anything else in the world (except, arguably, my wife and kid): I’m sitting on the couch reading, and then I’m gone – living in Narnia, breathing Middle Earth air, dodging passers-by in turn-of-the-century New York City. There’s nothing else like that moment. Sometimes (ok, true confession here) I’ll get so caught up that my hands go numb (which makes scrolling down almost impossible). Once my diaphragm seized up and I had to stop reading so the black spots would disappear in front of my eyes. That’s what books can do: they can transform you. They can transform the world. (OK, so I’m a bit of an idealist.

Jacquelyn Mitchard was born in Chicago. Her first novel, The Deep End of the Ocean, was published in 1996, becoming the first selection of the Oprah Winfrey Book Club and a number one New York Times bestseller. Eight other novels, four children's books and six young adult novels followed, including Two if By Sea, Still Summer, All We Know of Heaven, and The Breakdown Lane. Her work has won the Shirley Jackson Award and the Bram Stoker Award. A former daily newspaper reporter, Mitchard now is Editor-in-Chief of Merit Press, and frequently writes for such publications as Real Simple, Glamour,and Readers Digest. Her essays and short stories have been widely anthologized. An adjunct professor in the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at Vermont College of Fine Arts, she lives on Cape Cod with her family.

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