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Neil graduated from Bowdoin College in Maine with a degree in Art History and English and joined what would become the Donadio & Olson Inc. literary agency in 1987 as an Assistant to Founder Candida Donadio and to Eric Ashworth. He later became a Partner in 1996 and gained thirty years of experience in agenting there until it went bankrupt in 2018. For more information on that, please check out the article in the Interesting Links section below. Neil moved to Massie & McQuilkin Literary Agents in 2019, where he currently works as a Literary Agent.<\/p>\n

Neil is also a published author under the pseudonym Thomas Hall. His debut novel The Icon<\/i> was published in 2005, while his second novel The Black Painting<\/i> was released in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-915274","agent","type-agent","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nNeil Olson, Literary Agent \u2013 All You Need To Know | Jericho Writers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/our-services\/agentmatch\/literary-agent\/neil-olson\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Neil Olson – Jericho Writers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Neil graduated from Bowdoin College in Maine with a degree in Art History and English and joined what would become the Donadio & Olson Inc. literary agency in 1987 as an Assistant to Founder Candida Donadio and to Eric Ashworth. 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