Jeffery directs the New York operations of The August Agency. He brings to the company a wide range of leadership experience in television and publishing, with a concentrated background in editorial, legal, publicity, advertising and promotion, and feature reporting. He has worked for media companies large and small, including Soap Opera Weekly, HarperCollins, Abrams, Leisure Publishing, and A&E Television Networks.
Throughout his career Jeffery has had the privilege to work with many different types of books - from exquisite art and illustrated coffee table tomes to New York Times bestselling fiction and nonfiction - and an equally diverse roster of remarkable authors and artists - among them Nancy Bartholomew, Elizabeth Berg, Cathy East Dubowski, Patricia Gaffney, Olivia Goldsmith, Andy Goldsworthy, Al Hirschfeld, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Bill O'Reilly, Joanne Pence, Betty Rollin, Ben Schonzeit, and Hunt Slonem.
Jeffery has an enormous passion for well-written melodramas (consider Fannie Hurst's Back Street and Imitation of Life, Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind, and Michael Cunningham's The Hours) and witty comedies-of-manners (think Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s screen play All About Eve and Wendy MacLeod’s The House of Yes). His other favorite areas of publishing interests include political science, history, biography, self-help, health, lifestyle, humor, memoir, and the social sciences.
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Jeffery McGraw
