Noah Lukeman (born November 28, 1973) is an American literary agent, actor, script-writer and author of works about writing and literature.
Lukeman has contributed to a number of newspapers and journals, including The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. Some of his books have been translated into Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Indonesian. Lukeman is the founder of the Lukeman Literary Management.
Early life and education Lukeman was born in New York City, the son of Brenda Shoshanna, a psychologist, actress, and playwright, and Gerald Lukeman, a Shakespearean actor and director.Interview with Noah Lukeman by Catherine Tudor, 2000 He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and creative writing at Brandeis University, located in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Career After college, Lukeman worked for various publishers, including William Morrow and Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
In 1996, Lukeman founded Lukeman Literary Management, in which capacity he acted as agent for a number of successful writers. In 2001, Lukeman joined Michael Ovitz's Artists Management Group (AMG), where he ran its New York publishing office for years before returning to being an independent agent.
Lukeman has also acted in a few independent films.The First Five and Beyond interview by Michael Neff, in Algonkian Workshops
Writing Lukeman's writing is diverse in nature. His first published works offered advice and techniques for writers. Since then, he has collaborated with a U.S. Marine Corps general to write about the inner workings of CENTCOM (U.S. Central Command) and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and has written a sequel to Shakespeare's Macbeth in blank verse. Lukeman also works as a screenwriter, and his screenplay, Brothers in Arms, was sold and named to The Black List,MacbethTwo: author details an annual survey of the "most-liked" motion picture screenplays not yet produced.
Bibliography
Non-fiction (1999) The First Five Pages: A Writer’s Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile, Simon & Schuster (2002) The Plot Thickens: 8 Ways to Bring Fiction to Life, St. Martin's Press, (2006) A Dash of Style: The Art and Mastery of Punctuation, W.W. Norton (U.S.) , Oxford University Press (U.K.)
Collaborations with Michael DeLong: (2004) Inside CentCom: The Unvarnished Truth about the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Regenery PublishingRegenery Publishing author list (2007) A General Speaks Out: The Truth About the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Zenith Publishing,
Screenplay Brothers in Arms
Play (2008) The Tragedy of Macbeth Part II: The Seed of Banquo, Pegasus,
References
External links , Lukeman Literary Management's official website Interview by Catherine Tudor