AH-CHOO!  The Uncommon Life of Your Common Cold By Jennifer Ackerman
Jennifer Ackerman's most recent book is Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream: A Day in the Life of Your Body. Her previous books include Chance in the House of Fate: A Natural History of Heredity and Notes from the Shore. A contributor to National Geographic Magazine, The New York Times, and many other publications, she is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including a 2004 NEA Literature Fellowship in Nonfiction and a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Her articles and essays have been included in several anthologies, among them Best American Science Writing (2005), The Nature Reader (1996) and Best Nature Writing (1996). (Representation:  Melanie Jackson Literary Agency)

THE FEVER OF 1721: The Epidemic that Ignited the American Revolution by Stephen Coss
Stephen Coss is a journalist, screenwriter, and former advertising creative director, based in Madison Wisconsin, where he writes for Madison Magazine and business publications.  He first learned about Zabdiel Boylston's groundbreaking inoculation experiment from a "fact-a-day" calendar cube he received as a gift in the mid-1990s.  Intrigued by the significance of Boylston's experiment, he began researching the doctor, the procedure, and subsequently, the social, political, and religious milieus of 1721 Boston. (Representation:  David McCormick, McCormick Williams)

NONFICTION ON ALEX RODRIGUEZ by Richard Ben Cramer
Richard Ben Cramer won the Pulitzer Prize for Middle East reporting in 1979. His journalism has appeared in Time, Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, and Rolling Stone. He is the author of the bestselling Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life and the classic of modern American politics, What It Takes: The Way to the White House. He lives on Maryland's Eastern Shore. (Representation:  Philippa Brophy, Sterling Lord Literistic)

NONFICTION ON FDR AND THE SUPREME COURT by Noah Feldman
Noah Feldman is the author of three books, Divided By God: America's Church-State Problem and What We Should Do About It (FSG, 2005); What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building (Princeton University Press, 2004); and After Jihad: America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy (FSG, 2003). In 2003 he was senior constitutional advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, and subsequently advised members of the Iraqi Governing Council on the drafting of the Transitional Administrative Law or interim constitution. He is currently a professor at the NYU School of Law, a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, and an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. (Representation:  Heather Schroder, ICM) 

BOTH SIDES NOW:  A Memoir By Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and a visiting professor of liberal studies at the New School.  He is the author of numerous books, including the National Book Award finalist and #1 bestseller, God Is Not Great; Thomas Jefferson: Author of America; Thomas Paine's "Rights of Man": A Biography; Letters to a Young Contrarian; and Why Orwell Matters. (Representation: Steve Wasserman, Kneerim and Williams)

SHADOW ZONE: The Story of Whales, a Secret Navy Sonar Program, and the Environmental Lawyer Who Exposed It by Josh Horwitz
Josh Horwitz is the co-author of two books of non-fiction, Wrestling with Angels and If I Get to Five, as well as a young adult novel and several children's books.  He is the co-founder of Living Planet Press, an environmental publisher, and  AuthorsOnline, a website featuring the homepages of award-winning and best-selling authors. (Representation:Gail Ross)

HOW WE CHOOSE  by Sheena Iyengar
For more than a decade, Columbia University professor Sheena Iyengar has studied the contrast between the perceptions and realities in the way choosers think and behave.  Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the National Security Education Program, as well as by numerous businesses.  She received the Presidential Early Career Award in 2001, and in 2005 was invited to serve as a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.  Some of her best-known work was cited in Malcolm Gladwell's Blink, which described her studies of speed-daters and consumers of varying brands of jam.  (Representation:  Tina Bennett, Janklow & Nesbit)

THE McMASTERS GUIDE TO HOMICIDE: Murder Your Employer by Rupert Holmes
Rupert Holmes is the two-time Edgar and two-time Tony Award-winning creator of novels, plays, mystery musicals and TV series such as Where the Truth Lies and Swing (fiction); The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Curtains (Broadway musicals); Accomplice and Say Goodnight, Gracie (Broadway plays); Remember WENN (the Emmy Award-winning TV "dramedy" series).  (Representation:  Heather Schroder, ICM)

A GOOD TALK: The Art of Conversation by Daniel Menaker
Daniel Menaker has been a part of America's life of letters for almost forty years. As a writer, he has met and talked to thousands of people about their work and their lives. He is widely read and well versed in psychological literature and practices and, as an editor at Random House, has had countless meetings and other exchanges with writers, agents, public figures, and ordinary people. He will be the editorial Producer and presenter of an Internet book project--conversations with writers and others about books--called TitlePage.tv and will also be teaching a course in narrative nonfiction at CUNY starting in February. (Representation:  Esther Newberg, ICM)

NONFICTION ON LATINO USA By Julia E. Sweig
Julia E. Sweig is the Nelson and David Rockefeller senior fellow and director for Latin American studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.  Her most recent book is Friendly Fire:  Losing Friends and Making Enemies in the Anti-American Century.  Her previous book, Inside the Cuban Revolution, won the American Historical Association's Herbert Feis Award for best book of the year by an independent scholar. (Representation: Esther Newberg, ICM).

THE LAST CHAMPION: William Francis Gibbs and the S.S. United States By Steven Ujifusa
Steven Ujifusa received a B.A. in history from Harvard University in 2001 and an M.S. in Historic Preservation from the University of Pennsylvania in 2005, where he began his research on William Gibbs, America's greatest naval architect, and his ship, the S.S. United States, the fastest in its day, which  he devoted his life to designing and building. (Representation:  David Kuhn).

SEVEN by Jacqueline Leo and Edward Burger
Jacqueline Leo founded and launched Child magazine in 1986. She later became Editor-in-Chief of Family Circle magazine and Editorial Director of the New York Times Women's Magazine special interest publications. She was Senior Producer and Editorial Director for ABC News' Good Morning America; Editorial Director for Consumer Reports magazine; and Vice President and Editor-in-Chief of Reader's Digest. She is currently Senior Advisor for Business Development at iAmplify.com. Edward Burger is Professor of Mathematics at Williams College and the author of over 30 research articles and 12 books including Coincidences, Chaos, and All That Math Jazz: Making Light of Weighty Ideas (W.W. Norton & Co). He is arguably one of the most watched mathematics professors in the world: He is the star of over 12 video series on mathematics produced for students and lifetime learners. He has also delivered over 400 lectures worldwide. (Representation: Laura Yorke and Carol Mann, Carol Mann Agency).