Jennifer Rudolph Walsh is Executive Vice President and Co-Head of the William Morris Agency

William Morris Agency

WME is the largest talent agency in the world, with offices in Beverly Hills, New York City, Nashville, London, and Miami. WME represents elite artists from all facets of the entertainment industry, including motion pictures, television, music, theatre, publishing, and physical production...

’s Worldwide Literary Department. In 2003, she became the first woman ever named to WMA’s Board of Directors.http://www.wma.com/0/press/pressreleases/new_board_members_Final.html

Walsh joined WMA in 2000 when the agency acquired The Writers Shop, of which she was Co-Owner and Co-President. Walsh sits on the board of Room to Grow http://www.roomtogrow.org/RTG_AboutUs06.htm, a nonprofit organization dedicated to enriching the lives of babies born into poverty, and also founded the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award. Established in 2001, this annual award recognizes the work of young authors and celebrates their accomplishments publicly, making a difference in their lives as they continue to build their careers.http://www.support.nypl.org/younglions/young-lions-fiction-award.html

Walsh's prestigious and best-selling client list includes authors Sue Monk Kidd

Sue Monk Kidd

Sue Monk Kidd is a writer from the Southern United States, best known for her novel, The Secret Life of Bees.- Biography :Kidd, who was born in Sylvester, Georgia, graduated from Texas Christian University with a B.S...

 (The Secret Life of Bees

The Secret Life of Bees

This is about the 2002 Sue Monk Kidd novel. For the 2008 film, see Secret Life of Bees The Secret Life of Bees is a 2002 historical novel by American author Sue Monk Kidd. It received much critical acclaim and was a New York Times bestseller...

), Alice Munro

Alice Munro

Alice Ann Munro is a Canadian short-story writer, the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work, a three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction, and a perennial contender for the Nobel Prize...

 (The View from Castle Rock

The View from Castle Rock

The View from Castle Rock is a book of short stories by Canadian author Alice Munro, published in 2006 by McClelland and Stewart.It is a collection of historical and autobiographical stories. The first part of the book narrates the lives of members of the Laidlaw branch of the family tree of the...

), Jeannette Walls

Jeannette Walls

Jeannette Walls is a writer and journalist widely known as former gossip columnist for MSNBC.com — and author of The Glass Castle, a memoir of the nomadic family life of her childhood, which stayed on the New York Times Best Seller list for 100 weeks.-Early life and education:Walls was born...

 (The Glass Castle

The Glass Castle

The Glass Castle is a 2005 memoir by Jeannette Walls. The book recounts her and her siblings' unconventional, poverty-stricken upbringing at the hands of their deeply dysfunctional parents....

), Anita Shreve

Anita Shreve

Anita Shreve is an American writer. The daughter of an airline pilot and a homemaker, she graduated from Dedham High School, attended Tufts University and began writing while working as a high school teacher in Reading MA. One of her first published stories, Past the Island, Drifting, was awarded...

 (A Wedding in December), Kathy Reichs

Kathy Reichs

Kathleen Joan Toelle "Kathy" Reichs is an American crime writer, forensic anthropologist and academic . She is a professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, but is currently on indefinite leave...

 (Break No Bones), Fannie Flagg

Fannie Flagg

Patricia Neal , known professionally as Fannie Flagg, is an American actress, comedienne and author. She is perhaps best-known for the 1988 novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, which was adapted into the 1991 movie Fried Green Tomatoes; Flagg was nominated for an Academy Award for...

 (Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven), Ann Brashares

Ann Brashares

Ann Brashares is an American writer of young adult fiction. She is best known as the author of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series of books....

 (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants), Ken Burns

Ken Burns

Kenneth Lauren "Ken" Burns is an American director and producer of documentary films, known for his style of using archival footage and photographs...

 (The Civil War), Marcus Buckingham

Marcus Buckingham

Marcus Buckingham is a British-American New York Times bestselling author, researcher, motivational speaker and business consultant best known for promoting what he calls "Strengths." Basing most of his writing on extensive survey data from interviews with workers in countries around the world, he...

 (First Break All the Rules), Ethan Canin

Ethan Canin

Ethan Andrew Canin is an American author, educator, and physician. He is a member of the faculty of the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa....

 (America America),and the Starbucks

Starbucks

Starbucks Corporation is an international coffee and coffeehouse chain based in Seattle, Washington. Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse company in the world, with 17,009 stores in 55 countries, including over 11,000 in the United States, over 1,000 in Canada, over 700 in the United Kingdom, and...

book programhttp://articles.latimes.com/2006/aug/14/entertainment/et-starbucks14 (Ishmael Beah’s A Long Way Gone), among others.

She lives in Manhattan with her husband and their three children.http://jenniferrudolphwalsh.blogspot.com/2008/07/jennifer-rudolph-walshs-bio.html