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Byrd Leavell

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Byrd Leavell is a literary agent and the co-head of the publishing department at United Talent Agency.[5][6][7] Previously he was known as a named partner at the Waxman Leavell Literary Agency.[8][9]

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Career

Leavell graduated from the University of Virginia and the Radcliffe Publishing Program.[3][10] In 2012, he partnered with Scott Waxman to form the Waxman Leavell Literary Agency.[9]

As a partner at the Waxman Leavell agency, he has overseen multiple New York Times bestsellers including #1 bestselling books Shit My Dad Says by Justin Halpern.[11][12][13][14][15][16][17] Leavell also represents Rob Elliott, whose LOL series has sold more than 2.5 million copies.[18] He also represented the anonymous Dutch novel Diary of an Oxygen Thief.[19][20] Leavell also represents Cat Marnell, a former Lucky, XoJane and Vice blogger.[21]

In September 2017 he began his employment at UTA.[5] One of the first clients Leavell represented at UTA was comedian and actor Tiffany Haddish.[2] Haddish's memoir, The Last Black Unicorn, was a debut New York Times bestseller, spending each of its first six weeks in print on the list and, as of January 2018, reaching #5 overall.[2][22][23][24]

In 2024, Leavell was promoted to Partner at UTA.[25]

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Selected clients

According to Publishers Weekly.[3][10]

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