Chris Clemans received his BA in English from Duke University, with a minor in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics. He began his career in publishing at William Morris Endeavor. In 2014, he left WME to help start The Clegg Agency, where he became an agent. He joined Janklow & Nesbit in 2018.

Chris’s authors have become instant New York Times bestsellers and have won or been finalists for numerous awards and distinctions, including the National Book Award in Fiction, the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35,” the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize, the British Book Award for Debut Fiction, the Rooney Prize, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, the High Plains Book Award in Fiction, the Chicago Review of Books Award in Fiction, the Vermont Book Award in Fiction, the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, the Barnes & Noble Book of the Year Award, the DAG Prize for Literature, Carnegie Medals of Excellence, Creative Capital Awards, Andy Warhol Arts Writers Grants, Wallace Stegner Fellowships, and New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice selections. Their titles have been selected as best books of the year by The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Guardian, NPR, GQ, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Vulture, and others.

He represents literary and upmarket fiction, narrative nonfiction, cultural criticism, and memoir.