Celebrating the Life of Jill Kneerim

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Jill Kneerim, co-founder of Kneerim & Williams, who died on April 22, 2022.

Celebrating the Life of Jill Kneerim

Kneerim & Williams is a full-service literary agency based in Boston

Our mission is to help talented writers design and achieve their publishing goals. We offer representation for new and established authors and we secure publishing arrangements for our clients worldwide in print, audio, electronic, film and television.

A Tradition of Talent

Since our founding in 1990, the agency has been proud to represent outstanding and widely recognized writers in every category we handle, from New York Times best-selling novelists to prize-winning scholars and journalists. Our clients’ books are frequent nominees for and winners of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and their titles are a mainstay of the Best Books and Best Seller lists of The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, Buzzfeed, The Economist, NPR, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal.