Byrd Leavell

Byrd Leavell is a literary agent at United Talent Agency.^[5][6] Previously he was known as a named partner at the Waxman Leavell Literary Agency.^[7][8]

Byrd Leavell
Born	Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.[1]
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Virginia
Occupation	Literary agent
Known for	representing Tiffany Haddish,[2] Justin Halpern, Cat Marnell and "Weird Al" Yankovic[3][4]

Career

Leavell graduated from the University of Virginia and the Radcliffe Publishing Program.^[3][9] In 2012, he partnered with Scott Waxman to form the Waxman Leavell Literary Agency.^[8]

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.^{[10][11][12][13][14][15][16]} Leavell also represents Rob Elliott, whose LOL series has sold more than 2.5 million copies.^[17] He also represented the anonymous Dutch novel Diary of an Oxygen Thief.^[18][19] Leavell also represents Cat Marnell, a former Lucky, XoJane and Vice blogger.^[20]

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][21][22][23]}

Selected clients

According to Publishers Weekly.^[3][9]

• Tiffany Haddish
• Jay Chandrasekhar
• Mark Frauenfelder
• GloZell Green
• George Karl
• Chelsea Handler
• Drew Magary
• Cat Marnell
• Patrick McEnroe
• Daniel O'Brien^[24]
• John L. Parker, Jr.
• Brian Kilmeade
• Mike Sacks
• Pete Sampras
• Scott Sigler
• Steve Spurrier
• "Weird Al" Yankovic
• Rich Roll
• Guy Raz
• Adam Savage
• Mandy Stadtmiller
• Anthony Sullivan
• Jorge Cruise
• Mat Best