Tina Bennett is the founder of Bennett Literary, which operates in association with CAA. She specializes in narrative nonfiction, literary journalism, idea books, politics, history, current affairs, memoir, and academic crossover titles. Clients represented by Bennett include Anne Applebaum, Gary Bass, Leo Damrosch, Andrea Elliott, Atul Gawande, Malcolm Gladwell, Eliza Griswold, Laura Hillenbrand, Hope Jahren, Jodi Kantor, Patrick Radden Keefe, Jill Lepore, Dahlia Lithwick, Nick Paumgarten, Tom Reiss, James Risen, Alex Ross, Eric Schlosser, Timothy Snyder, David Wallace-Wells, Ted Widmer, Tim Wu, and many others.
A native of Swarthmore, PA, Bennett received a B.A. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University (1989), a M.Phil. in 20th-century English Literature and Culture from Oxford University (Balliol College, 1993) on a Marshall Scholarship; and completed a year’s coursework toward a Ph.D. in English Literature at Yale University.