Jonny Geller
Jonny Geller joined Curtis Brown in 1993 as an assistant after a short career as an actor. He became a literary agent in 1995 after discovering a novel on the unsolicited pile which went on to sell rights around the world. After taking part in a Management Buyout in 2001, he became CEO of the Agency in 2012 and is now CEO of The Curtis Brown Group, the parent company of Curtis Brown agency and its seven subsidiaries.
Jonny represents a wide range of globally significant writers. Novelists, memoirists, Journalists, former Prime Ministers, thought leaders, business people, actors, musicians and screenwriters. Jonny has previously been awarded Literary Agent of the Year and has been listed on The Bookseller’s 150 every year since its inception. He has also been named one of GQ's 100 Most Connected Men in Britain and the Evening Standard’s 1000 Most Influential People in London. A regular speaker at conferences and events, Jonny hosted a Tedx Talk in 2016 on ‘What Makes a Bestseller’. He is the author of two books.
His fiction clients include: Monica Ali, William Boyd, Tracy Chevalier, Susanna Clarke, Jane Fallon, Lisa Jewell, Ruth Jones, David Nicholls, David Mitchell, Elif Shafak and the Literary Estates of John le Carré and Ian Fleming.
His nonfiction clients include: Bono, Gordon Brown, Alastair Campbell, Jonathan Freedland, Anthony Hopkins, Nigella Lawson, Ben Macintyre, Nelson Mandela Foundation, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Matthew Syed and Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe among others.
