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Richard Pine

Richard Pine

Richard Pine is a co-founder of InkWell Management. He works with leaders and writers who inspire, extend horizons, coin new terms, invent new worlds, and reach millions of people. Many of his clients do all of these things at once, including Adam Grant, Susan Cain, Johann Hari, Tim Urban, Sal Khan, Angela Duckworth, Arianna Huffington, Martin Seligman, and Reshma Saujani.

He represents authors, creators, and memoirists of particularly high originality, such as Bryan Cranston, Susan Orlean, Andre Agassi, Erin Morgenstern, Jeff Benedict, Maggie Stiefvater, Katherine Dunn, Michael Koryta, Suleika Jaouad, Robinne Lee, Lee Child and Andrew Child, and Dean Koontz.

His commitment to books that evolve our popular understanding of health and wellness has led him to work with bestselling and groundbreaking practitioners such as Mark Hyman, Michael Greger, Andrew Weil, and U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy.

He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. In 2014, Richard was inducted into the Books for a Better Life Hall of Fame.

His interest is in his clients’ long-term success, and he is dedicated to helping them create relationships with the very best partners in publishing and beyond. As a result, he has helped them sell millions of books, inspire and entertain millions of readers, and establish careers that last lifetimes.