Noah Lukeman
Noah Lukeman 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. 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, 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.
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 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, an annual survey of the "most-liked" motion picture screenplays not yet produced.Non-fiction
The First Five Pages: A Writer’s Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile, Simon & Schuster The Plot Thickens: 8 Ways to Bring Fiction to Life, St. Martin's Press, A Dash of Style: The Art and Mastery of Punctuation, W.W. Norton, Oxford University PressCollaborations
with Michael DeLong:Inside CentCom: The Unvarnished Truth about the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Regenery Publishing A General Speaks Out: The Truth About the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Zenith Publishing,Screenplay
- ''Brothers in Arms''