Philip Spitzer

Philip Spitzer began his career in publishing by earning an M.A. at New York University's Graduate Institute of Book Publishing. He worked as an editorial assistant at NYU Press before becoming assistant to the director of marketing in McGraw-Hill's trade book department. He was subsequently appointed director of sales and marketing of McGraw-Hill's art book department.

From 1966 to 1969 Philip worked as a literary agent for John Cushman Associates, then the American affiliate of Curtis, Brown, London, representing hundreds of British writers. In 1969 he formed the Philip G. Spitzer Literary Agency, representing a wide range of fiction and nonfiction writers, as well more than a dozen French publishers. He specializes in general fiction and literary crime fiction, as well as nonfiction subjects of politics, sports, and works of sociological interest.