Steve Wasserman is former editor of the Los Angeles Times Book Review and a principal architect of the annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. From 1990-1996, he was the editorial director of Times Books when it was a division of Random House, Inc., and published such authors as President Bill Clinton, Sister Souljah, and Barack Obama.

Steve is a founder and former co-director of the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities at the University of Southern California. In 2002, he chaired the nominating jury for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction; in 2004, he was a member of the nominating jury for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. A fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities (and its 2010 acting director), Steve has been an adjunct professor in NYU's Department of Cultural Reporting and Journalism.

Steve represents such authors as Christopher Hitchens, David Thomson, William Pfaff, Robert Scheer, Linda Ronstadt, Benjamin Schwarz, and Placido Domingo, among others. He was literary editor of Truthdig.com from 2007-2010, and is the recipient of the 2007 and 2008 Maggie Award for "Best Regularly Featured Web Column."

In April 2011, Steve was named Yale University Press's Executive Editor-at-Large for General Interest Books. He continues his work on behalf of Kneerim & Williams but does not represent any Agency client in negotiations with Yale University Press.

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