Jean (Mosseri) Naggar was born in Cairo Egypt in 1937. She left in 1957 as a result of the Suez crisis, and in 1962 married Serge Naggar (the boy next door in her childhood) and followed him to America where she has lived ever since.
Jean Naggar's poetry has been featured in The Listener and Athanor. She has been published in The New York Times, The Village Voice, Publishers Weekly, and Writer's Digest. A voracious reader all her life, she translated several novels from French into English. She has been a guest blogger on many sites of Jewish interest and of interest to writers. Links to her articles and blogs can be found on her website: www.jeannaggar.com
Her memoir of an unusual childhood, Sipping from the Nile: My Exodus from Egypt ( Lake Union, 2012), was an International Book Award finalist in two categories. Short-listed for the 2011 Eric Hoffer Grand Award it was also the first runner-up in the memoir category. Her latest book, a novel, Footprints on The Heart, has hit the ground running. Recently published, it is a Book Excellence Award finalist, enjoying a bouquet of enticing 5-star reviews on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2LGW4Dk
For over forty years she presided over the agency she founded in New York City in 1974, the Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc, (JVNLA), delighting in introducing her vibrant, eclectic client list - numbering Jean M. Auel, Mary McGarry Morris, Sarah Waters, Nancy Willard, Phillip Margolin, Christopher Sansom, Karleen Koen, Carl Safina, Linda Pastan, and many others - to the world. The agency is now run by Jennifer Weltz.
Mother of three and grandmother of seven, Jean is a past president of the the AAR (Association of Authors' Representatives), sought after as a speaker at events around the US. She is a member of the Authors' Guild, the International Women's Forum, and the Women's Media Group. She was honored as Woman of the Year by the WMG in 2018.
Website: http://www.jeannaggar.com
