Ian Bonaparte is actively acquiring in the areas of popular history and science, narrative-driven nonfiction, smart pop culture, and outward-looking memoir. He is looking for books that will shift paradigms, our understanding of the world, and/or ourselves. Within nonfiction, he is also interested in deeply reported or embedded stories, unruly obsessions, big idea, social justice, and projects that will move the Overton window of discourse. In fiction he is seeking a select list of plot-driven literary (and literary-crossover) novels, particularly elevated horror or genre-inflected narratives. He is seeking work that is bold, moving, and moves.

His clients have been New York Times Bestsellers, USA Today Bestsellers, National Geographic Explorers, NASA Earth and Space Science Fellows, Robert Silvers Grant for Work in Progress recipients, Andy Warhol Arts grantees, Ford Foundation grantees, Outstanding Societal Impact through Research Awardees, Calgary Peace Prize awardees, National Endowment for the Humanities grantees, Mellon Foundation grantees, finalists for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, recognized in the New York Times, NPR, TIME, and New Yorker Best Books of the Year and reviewed and published in such places as The New Yorker, The Drift, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and the Times (both New York and London).

Ian began his career in publishing at Farrar, Straus & Giroux, joining Janklow & Nesbit in 2016. He is fiercely committed to his authors and deeply grateful to assist in bringing new ideas, outlooks and worlds into existence. One author has called him “an interpreter of dreams,” which he quite likes. He hails from Portland, Oregon.

Twitter: @ianbonaparte