Before moving to agenting, Ryan was an editor at Simon & Schuster where he helped create and launch a new imprint, Simon Spotlight Entertainment (now Gallery Books). He also worked as an editor for Little, Brown & Company as well as Penguin Random House (where he edited books for Plume, Dutton, and Viking). He acquired and edited the Pulitzer Prize winning Boston Globe Spotlight Team’s Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church<\/i>, which informed the movie Spotlight<\/i>, winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture as well as Peter Singer’s New York Times bestseller The President of Good & Evil: Questioning the Ethics of George W. Bush<\/i>. He has also worked with numerous other bestselling authors, including Michael Connelly, Matthew Diffee, John Feinstein, Malcolm Gladwell, Brad Listi, Alice Sebold and Danny Wallace.<\/p>\n
Ryan regularly addresses students and writers at New York University’s MFA program, Sarah Lawrence College’s MFA program and conferences including Aspen Summer Words, The Colgate Writers’ Conference, the Kauai Writers Conference, Miami Writers Institute, The New Orleans Writers Conference, San Miguel Writers’ Conference, and The Writers’ League of Texas, among others. He has been quoted on writing and publishing in The New York Times, The Times of London, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Poets & Writers, Publishers Weekly and on “Good Morning America,” among other outlets. Ryan is a graduate of Kalamazoo College, The Radcliffe Publishing Course and the Master of Fine Arts program in writing and literature at Bennington College. He lives with his wife and children in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-956660","agent","type-agent","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n