Kathryn Miles' All Standing: The True Story of Hunger, Rebellion, and Survival Aboard the Jeanie Johnston, about the Irish famine and the legendary coffin ship who shuttled thousands of people to safety. Sold to Hilary Redmon at Free Press by Wendy Strothman at The Strothman Agency, LLC. (North American)
Ashe Book to S&S Free Press’s Martin Beiser won, at auction, world rights to Ray Arsenault’s Arthur Ashe biography. Arsenault (Freedom Riders), who teaches Southern history at the University of South Florida, will discuss the tennis great’s life as well as his contributions to civil, and overall human, rights. The S&S imprint is planning a 2012 publication, timed to that year’s U.S. Open. Agent Wendy Strothman did the deal.
World Rights to Amy Nutt's Shadows Bright As Glass, about how our brains shape who we are and the remarkable story of Jon Sarkin, who suffered a massive stroke after brain surgery, transforming his personality and compelling him to compulsively create artwork, to Emily Loose at Free Press; for publication in 2010.
Martin Beiser at the Free Press bought world rights to frequent New York Times contributor Thanassis Cambanis Hezbollah: The Party of God and the Future of the Middle East; for publication in 2010.
MIT professor and YouTube star Walter Lewin's FOR THE LOVE OF PHYSICS, written with Warren Goldstein, which will tell how the author grew up during and after World War II, how he became a scientist, and how he fell in love -- first with physics and then with the craft of teaching physics to students, to Emily Loose at Free Press, in a major deal, in a pre-empt, by Wendy Strothman of The Strothman Agency (World).
World Rights to Carol Delaney's Columbus and the Quest of Jerusalem to Emily Loose at Free Press. For publication in 2010.
An early six-figure figure offer jumpstarted the bidding on University of Chicago psychologist Sian Beilock's CHOKE: What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal about Success and Failure at Work and Play, which reveals astonishing new scientific research that turns on its head what we know about body-brain intelligence and performance, specifically what makes us flub and freeze. After two days of intense jockeying the young rising star's first book went to Leslie Meredith at Free Press for publication in 2010. The sale was handled by Dan O'Connell of The Strothman Agency.
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