
BREAKING: Tina Bennett, a longtime agent at Janklow & Nesbit, has just joined the New York-based literary division of WME.
Bennett had been with Janklow & Nesbit since 1994 and was most recently a director there. Her clients include Malcolm Gladwell, Laura Hillenbrand, Eric Schlosser, Atul Gawande, Jill Lepore, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, Peter Bergen, Lev Grossman, Tim Snyder, Terry Castle, Amy Chua, Matthew B. Crawford, Sheri Fink, Alex Ross, James Carroll, Eliza Griswold, James Risen, Tom Reiss, Patrick Keefe, Tim Wu, Fareed Zakaria, and many others. She specializes in narrative nonfiction, cultural history, idea books, literary fiction, politics and current affairs, and academic crossover titles.
Bennett is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities, and serves on the board of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation.


WME is lucky to get her. She’s smart, talented and has terrific taste–everything you could ask for in a literary agent.
What in the world does WME still need Jennifer Rudolph Walsh for? She should now follow in Jim Wiatt’s footsteps having been made redundant by Tina Bennett, Eric Simonoff and the many more accomplished agents now in the Book Department with better client lists. What she represents is a fat salary that the company doesn’t need.