Agency Staff

Christy Fletcher

Christy Fletcher is the Founding Partner of Fletcher & Company.

Christy studied writing and film at the University of Southern California. She moved to New York to work in publishing and began her career at the Carol Mann Agency where she worked closely with such writers as Paul Auster, Timothy Egan, Judith Wallerstein, Shelby Steele, and a host of others. After three years, she left to help start Carlisle & Company (now part of Inkwell Management) where she continued to build a strong list of bestselling and award-winning writers.

In 2003, Christy left her position as Vice President at Carlisle & Company to co-found Fletcher & Parry with her colleague Emma Parry, bringing with them their respective clients and backlists. She launched the agency’s move into feature film and television production and management in 2006, and acts as producer on several client-based projects. In the summer of 2008, Emma Parry left publishing and Christy became sole owner.

Melissa Chinchillo

Melissa Chinchillo joined the agency in 2004, after ten years of teaching literature, film, and women's studies at universities in New York and Boston. Melissa is the agency's Digital Rights Manager and Director of Foreign Rights. In these capacities, she represents the agency at international book fairs and publishing conferences. She is actively engaged in building relationships with key players in digital publishing and ensuring that our clients have access to an array of top-notch services in the electronic rights industry.

She represents a small, select list of her own authors, ranging from academics to syndicated cartoonists, and from debut novelists to well-established authors. Melissa holds a B.A. in English and Philosophy, M.A. in World Literature (both from Simmons College), and is A.B.D. in the Ph.D. program at SUNY-StonyBrook's English Department, where she also earned graduate teaching certification in film studies and women's studies.

Grainne Fox

Grainne Fox joined Fletcher & Company in September 2008, having worked as an agent in the UK for 9 years. Bringing with her an established list of food writers, Michelin starred chefs, award-winning journalists and up-market, commercial fiction authors, she is dedicated to her clients and is actively looking for Irish literary fiction and more smart, up-market fiction.

At Ed Victor Ltd, she worked as the Foreign Rights Manager and liaised with sub agents all over the world. She began to set up her own list in 2003 while also working closely with Ed Victor’s authors (who include Josephine Hart, Edna O'Brien, Justine Picardie, John Banville, Ben Macintyre, Tina Brown, Nigella Lawson, Freddie Forsyth, Adrian Gill). She is expert at handling the media, and sold serial rights for several high profile clients and negotiated newspaper/magazine deals. She also managed the film/ TV side of the agency's business, working with co-agents and also regularly dealing directly, especially for television.

She studied English Literature at Trinity College, Dublin and went on to pursue a Masters in Public Relations at The Dublin Institute of Technology.

With unique UK experience, she works with select agents in London to represent their authors in the US market.

Rebecca Gradinger

Rebecca Gradinger joined Fletcher & Company in 2009 after previously working as an agent at Janklow & Nesbit Associates. Prior to that she was a foreign literary scout at Mary Anne Thompson Associates, a lawyer, practicing media and intellectual property law, at Frankfurt Garbus Klein & Selz, and, in a previous life, a road manager for the MTV comedy troupe, The State.

Rebecca has eclectic taste in the books that she represents but a common thread in almost all of her projects is a strong emotional core. She is interested in projects that fall into the following categories: literary fiction, upmarket commercial fiction, narrative non-fiction, self-help, memoir, humor, and pop culture. Rebecca's particular areas of interest are: fiction that is simply impossible to stop reading (and if it makes you weep, all the better!) and memoir that takes you into unfamiliar worlds or deals with everyday concerns with particular insight and/or humor.

Rebecca works closely and creatively with her clients from the editorial stage to development and strategy for taking advantage of multi-platform possibilities including film/tv development.Some of Rebecca’s recent clients include Dr. Pauline Chen New York Times columnist and author of the New York Times bestseller FINAL EXAM: A Surgeon’s Reflections on Mortality (Knopf), Stephanie Dolgoff's MY FORMERLY HOT LIFE (Ballantine), Kathleen Grissom's THE KITCHEN HOUSE (S&S), Dr. Robin Zasio's THE HOARDER IN YOU (Rodale), Maggie Shipstead's SEATING ARRANGEMENTS (Knopf 2012), Keija Parssinen's THE RUINS OF US (Harper Perennial), D.G Fulford's DESIGNATED DAUGHTER (Hyperion), and Lilit Marcus' SAVE THE ASSISTANTS (Hyperion).

Rebecca holds a BA from Barnard College and a JD from George Washington University Law Center. She is originally from Montreal, Canada and is the proud mother of two “spirited” little girls.

Donald Lamm

Donald Lamm has been an agent with Fletcher & Company for four years, after previously working as an agent at Carlisle & Company. Before that, he served for forty-five years at W.W. Norton & Company as an Editor, President from 1976 until 1984, and company Chairman until his retirement in 2000.

At Fletcher & Company, he works with clients who are leaders in their respective fields, covering a wide array of non-fiction subjects and genres. His specialties include history, biography, investigative journalism, politics, current affairs, and business books for the trade.

Don has been chair of the board of governors of the Yale University Press and a trustee of the Columbia University Press. He is currently a trustee of the University of California Press and of the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he resides. Don is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an honor shared with only two other book publishers in the 230 years of the institution’s history, and vice president of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.

Alyssa Wolff

Alyssa Wolff returns to Fletcher & Company after a year of working at N.S. Bienstock, a talent agency where she worked with authors, as well as television talent. Having worked part-time for Fletcher & Company, Alyssa was excited at the opportunity to re-join the group. She graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor’s degree in English Language and Literature.

Alyssa’s interests include narrative non-fiction, literary fiction, memoir, humor, and thrillers