Paragraph members, come join us at 5pm on September 28m for a roundtable with Chris Clemans!

Chris Clemans is an agent at The Clegg Agency. He received his BA in English from Duke University, where he also minored in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics. After a short stint in journalism, he began his career in publishing at William Morris Endeavor, where as an agent trainee with Bill Clegg he worked closely with award-winning writers such as Rivka Galchen, Lauren Groff, Ottessa Moshfegh, Akhil Sharma, and Matthew Thomas. In 2014, Chris left WME to help Bill start The Clegg Agency, where he has since been working with a growing list of his own writers. His fiction tastes tend toward the literary, gravitating to novels and stories that exhibit unique voices and intrepid imaginations. On the nonfiction side, he’s interested in narrative nonfiction and literary memoir.