Our Agents

Philip Spitzer

Philip Spitzer began his career in publishing by earning an M.A. at New York University’s Graduate Institute of Book Publishing. He worked as an editorial assistant at NYU Press before becoming assistant to the director of marketing in McGraw-Hill’s trade book department. He was subsequently appointed director of sales and marketing of McGraw-Hill’s art book department.

From 1966 to 1969 Philip worked as a literary agent for John Cushman Associates, then the American affiliate of Curtis, Brown, London, representing hundreds of British writers. In 1969 he formed the Philip G. Spitzer Literary Agency, representing a wide range of fiction and nonfiction writers, as well more than a dozen French publishers. He specializes in general fiction and literary crime fiction, as well as nonfiction subjects of politics, sports, and works of sociological interest.

Lukas Ortiz

Lukas Ortiz joined the Philip G. Spitzer Literary Agency in 2000 and is its managing director. Born in Colombia, Lukas moved to New York when he was in elementary school. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Sociology and a minor in Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies.

Lukas is an associate member of the Association of Author’s Representatives, and the Mystery Writers of America. He is also an active supporter of PEN American Center, which defends writer’s rights and promotes literacy around the world.

Lukas shares his birthday with Mark Twain. Although they weren’t born the same year, they do share many similar views on life and death.

Lucas Hunt

Lucas Hunt was born in Iowa, studied at the University of Iowa Poetry Writer’s Workshop, and earned a degree in English from Southampton College, where he also attended the MFA program.

He has worked for an illustrator and a sculptor, as a fiction editor, at bookstores, and in art galleries. Lucas enjoys a variety of duties at the Spitzer Agency, consisting of, but not limited to author relations, foreign, audio, and serial rights, queries, interacting with editors, office administration, and reading great books.

He enjoys hiking,swimming, cooking, traveling, and writing poetry in his free time.