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We are privileged to work with some of the most exciting authors, chefs, illustrators and personalities in the world. Below you will find a sample of our clients which can be searched by first name, last name or title. For our full client list select, “Find by Name.”

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William Egginton

William Egginton

William Egginton is the Decker Professor in the Humanities, chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, and Professor of Comparative Thought and Literature at Johns Hopkins University, where he also directs the Interdisciplinary Humanistic Studies doctoral program. He is the author of multiple books, including How the World Became a Stage (2003), Perversity and Ethics (2006), A Wrinkle in History (2007), The Philosopher’s Desire (2007), The Theater of Truth (2010), In Defense of Religious Moderation (2011), The Man Who Invented Fiction (2016), The Splintering of the American Mind (2018), The Rigor of Angels (2023), and Alejandro Jodorowsky: Filmmaker and Philosopher (2024). He is co-author with David Castillo of Medialogies: Reading Reality in the Age of Inflationary Media (2017) and What Would Cervantes Do? Navigating Post-Truth with Spanish Baroque Literature (2022). His work has appeared in such publications as The New York Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and The New Republic, and his books have been reviewed in hundreds of publications around the world and translated into a dozen languages. In 2023, The Rigor of Angels was named to several best-books-of-the-year lists, including those of The New York Times and The New Yorker, was named as a runner-up to the ten best of the year by The New York Times Book Review Podcast, and in 2025 was listed as recommended reading in the Times’s “Best 100 Books of the 21st Century.”

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