David Dunton has been at Harvey Klinger, Inc. since 1996. He seeks the following types of projects: popular culture, narrative nonfiction, memoir, adventure/true story, food writing, nature, literary fiction, books with distinctly American voices, and young adult fiction.

Prior to being an agent, he was an editor in Simon & Schuster's trade paperback group. His projects included Donald S. Passman's All You Need to Know About the Music Business, Gavin Edwards' 'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy (and Other Misheard Lyrics), the resurrection of Lenny Bruce's How to Talk Dirty and Influence People, and Jason Cohen & Michael Krugman's Generation Ecch!.

TARA ALTEBRANDO (young adult novels Dreamland Social Club, Dutton Children's, 2011; What Happens Here, 2008, The Pursuit of Happiness, MTV/Pocket, 2006; adult novels Love Will Tear Us Apart, Downtown/Pocket, Fall 2005; Wouldn't Miss It For The World, Downtown/Pocket, 2007)

CHRIS CARLTON BROWN (young adult debut novel Hoppergrass, Henry Holt Children's, 2009)

DAN CHARNAS (The Big Payback: How Hip-Hop Became Global Pop, NAL, Fall 2010)

LORI CULWELL (debut novel Hollywood Car Wash, Touchstone, 2009; Million Dollar Website, Perigee/Prentice-Hall, 2009)

JOHN EINARSON (Flying Burrito Brothers biography, Jawbone, 2009)

ROB ELDER (The Film That Changed My Life: 30 Directors Talk About Life-Changing Experiences at the Movies, A Cappella, 2011; It Was Over When and It Was Love When, Sourcebooks, 2011)

STEVE GDULA (Gobba Gobba Hey Cookbook, Bloomsbury, 2011; The Warmest Room in the House: A Cultural History of the American Kitchen, Bloomsbury, 2008; Wearing History, Alyson, 2007)

ROBERT GORDON (Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Independent Spirit, Bloomsbury, 2011)

ASHLEY KAHN (A Love Supreme, Viking; The House that Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records, W.W. Norton, 2006; Something Else: The Complete History of Blue Note Records, Viking, TBD)

GREG KOT (Ripped: Indie Rock and the Wired Generation, Scribner, 2009; Wilco: Learning How to Die, Broadway, 2004)

MICHAEL KRUGMAN (writer, NYT Bestseller The Hardy Boyz, ReganBooks 2003, Lita, WWE/Pocket, Fall 2003; and Cheating Death, Stealing Life: The Eddie Guerrero Story, WWE/Pocket, 2005; Andre the Giant, WWE/Pocket, 2009)

ALEX MCAULAY (debut YA novel Bad Girls, MTV/Pocket, 2005; Lost Summer, MTV/Pocket, 2006; Oblivion Road, MTV/Pocket, 2007; Shelter Me, MTV/Pocket, 2009)

SCOTT MEBUS (The Sorcerer's Secret, Dutton Children's, 2010; Spirits in the Park, Dutton Children's, 2009; Gods of Manhattan[/i], Dutton Children's, 2008; debut novel The Booty Nomad, Miramax Books, 2004; The Big Happy, Miramax Books, 2006)

MICHELLE MERCER (Will You Take Me As I Am: Joni Mitchell's Blue Period, Free Press, 2009; Footprints!, the authorized Wayne Shorter biography, Tarcher/Penguin, December, 2004)

BOB MOULD (untitled autobiography, Little, Brown, Spring 2011)

KURT REIGHLEY (United States of Americana: Backyard Chickens, Burlesque Beauties, and Handmade Bitters--A Field Guide to the New American Roots Movement, Harper, 2010)

KEN SHARP (Starting Over: The Making of John Lennon's DOUBLE FANTASY, VH1/Pocket, November 2010)

JASON SHEEHAN (Cooking Dirty: A Story of Life, Sex, Love and Death in the Kitchen, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, July 2009)


He has also sold projects for Steven Lee Beeber (The Heebie Jeebies at CBGBs), Marcus Gray (The Clash), Jeremy Jackson (Life at These Speeds and James Beard nominee The Cornbread Book), Mark Kemp (Dixie Lullaby), Nevin Martell (Dave Matthews Band), Shawn McBride (Green Grass Grace), Richard Meltzer (Autumn Rhythm), Natasha Munson, Blake Nelson (User), Mac Randall (Exit Music: The Radiohead Story), Scott Schinder (Tim McGraw & the Dancehall Doctors), Karen Schoemer (Great Pretenders), Scott Stanton (Tombstone Tourist), Marc Weingarten (Station to Station), and many others.

David graduated from Wesleyan University in 1988 with a B.A. in American Studies. He can be contacted via email at david@harveyklinger.com and prefers email queries to hard copy ones.