{{short description|American literary agent (born 1959)}} {{Infobox person | name = David Vigliano | image = | birth_name = David Vigliano | birth_place = [[New York, New York]], US |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1959|06|18}} | occupation = [[Literary agent]], [[Entrepreneur]] | alma_mater = [[Hunter College]]<br> [[Harvard University Business School]] | boards = | website = {{URL|http://viglianoassociates.com/}} }}
'''David Vigliano''' is an American literary agent. He is the founder and head of Vigliano Associates, a boutique literary agency. He is best known for working with "headline-making" authors and for negotiating record-setting [[Advance against royalties|advances]]. Since 2002, 112 of his projects have appeared on [[The New York Times Best Seller list]], with 22 hitting the #1 position.<ref name=Gawker>{{cite web |title=City File on David Vigliano |url=http://gawker.com/550808/david-vigliano |work=February 3, 2008 |publisher=Gawker |access-date=7 February 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222040928/http://gawker.com/550808/david-vigliano |archive-date=22 February 2014 }}</ref><ref name=Beast>{{cite news|last=David|first=Anna|title=The Celebrity Book Frenzy|url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/07/19/celebrity-book-successes-chelsea-handler-tori-spelling-and-failures-sarah-silverman-kathy-griffin-and-kate-gosselin-in-the-bubble-book-economy.html|work=July 17, 2010|date=19 July 2010 |publisher=The Daily Beast|access-date=7 February 2014}}</ref><ref name=WashingtonPost>{{cite news |last=Weeks |first=Linton |title=The Vig: Wheel Behind The Deal |url=http://www.viglianoassociates.com/press/dviglianowashpost/ |date=June 4, 2003 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=7 February 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140822203354/http://www.viglianoassociates.com/press/dviglianowashpost/ |archive-date=22 August 2014 }}</ref><ref name=Observer>{{cite web|last=Kolhatkar|first=Sheila|title=Hey, Victim, Want a Book Deal?|url=http://observer.com/2006/04/hey-victim-want-a-book-deal-jill-carrolls-posttrauma-choice/#axzz2sf83mcVE|work=April 24, 2006|date=24 April 2006 |publisher=The New York Observer|access-date=8 February 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Kelly|first1=Keith J.|title=Vigliano selling agency to Y Entertainment|url=https://nypost.com/2014/10/29/vigliano-selling-agency-to-y-entertainment/|access-date=8 January 2015|publisher=New York Post|date=October 29, 2014}}</ref>
== Early life and education == Vigliano was born in New York. His mother, Barbara Murphy Vigliano, was an actress who starred in live television shows in the 1940s, and his father Eli was a lawyer, as is David's brother Dean. Vigliano attended [[Hunter College]], where he graduated [[magna cum laude]] with a degree in communications, and earned an [[MBA]] from [[Harvard Business School]] in 1983.<ref>{{cite web |last=Singer |first=Jill |title=Pitching an Agent: Vigliano Associates |url=http://www.mediabistro.com/Pitching-an-Agent-Vigliano-Associates-a2183.html |work=August 17, 2004 |publisher=Media Bistro |access-date=7 February 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120817055714/http://www.mediabistro.com/Pitching-an-Agent-Vigliano-Associates-a2183.html |archive-date=17 August 2012 }}</ref>
== Career == Following college, Vigliano returned to New York, where he was hired as the Director of Packaging at [[Warner Books]]. There, Vigliano moved beyond the traditional practice of passively acquiring new properties, and instead generated book ideas and pursued new authors. In 1986, with no experience as a literary agent, he founded Vigliano Associates.<ref name=Gawker /><ref name=Smashwords>{{cite web|title=David Vigliano Agent info|url=https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/ViglianoAssociates|work=2014|publisher=Smashwords|access-date=8 February 2014}}</ref>
While he represents both fiction and non-fiction, Vigliano has received significant attention for securing substantial advances for celebrities, including a reported $4,000,000 advance for [[Kurt Cobain]]'s journals in 2000.<ref>{{cite web|last=Patterson|first=Tom|title=His Last Writes|url=https://ew.com/article/2002/11/15/inside-story-how-cobains-journals-went-public/|work=November 15, 2002|publisher=Entertainment Weekly|access-date=8 February 2014}}</ref> His notable clients have included [[Michael Jackson]], George Noory [[Justin Timberlake]], [[Mike Tyson]], [[Shaquille O'Neal]], [[Willie Nelson]], [[Joanna Gaines]], [[Chip Gaines]], [[Alicia Keys]], [[Janet Jackson]], [[Britney Spears]], [[David Blaine]], [[Prince (musician)|Prince]], [[Pearl Jam]], [[Scott Weiland]], [[Rocco DiSpirito]], [[Courtney Love]], [[Anthony Kiedis]], [[Suzanne Somers]], and [[Pope John Paul II]]. His roster also includes [[Bob Greene]], [[Melody Beattie]], [[Nicholas Perricone]], [[Jerry Jenkins]], [[Ben Parr]], and [[Blake Mycoskie]]. Vigliano's literary projects include artist [[James Rosenquist]]'s autobiography, [[Eddie Little]]'s ''[[Another Day in Paradise (novel)|Another Day in Paradise]],'' and [[Douglas Coupland]]'s ''[[Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture|Generation X]]'', which sold more than 1,000,000 copies.<ref>{{cite web|title='Generation X' author turns to Pantheon|url=https://variety.com/1998/voices/columns/generation-x-author-turns-to-pantheon-1117489021/|work=December 1, 1998|date=2 December 1998 |publisher=Variety|access-date=9 February 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Hagan|first=Joe|title=The Blair Pitch Project|url=http://observer.com/2003/05/the-blair-pitch-project/#axzz2sf83mcVE|work=May 26, 2003|date=26 May 2003 |publisher=The Observer|access-date=8 February 2014}}</ref>
Vigliano has negotiated film rights for several of his books. [[Ben Mezrich]]'s ''[[Bringing Down the House (book)|Bringing Down the House]]'', was the source material for MGM's ''[[21 (2008 film)|21]]'',<ref>{{cite web|last=Fleming|first=Michael|title=Trigger Street bets on the 'House'|url=https://variety.com/2002/film/news/trigger-street-bets-on-the-house-1117873053/|work=September 19, 2002|date=20 September 2002 |publisher=Variety|access-date=9 February 2014}}</ref> and ''The Oldest Rookie'', by Jim Morris and Joe Engel,<ref>{{cite web|title=Hot Deals|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/print/19991220/27665-hot-deals.html|work=December 20, 1999|publisher=Publishers Weekly|access-date=9 February 2014}}</ref> was adapted into the [[Disney]] movie ''[[The Rookie (2002 film)|The Rookie]]'', starring [[Dennis Quaid]]. An article by [[Mike Sager]] in ''[[GQ]]'' was adapted into the [[Touchstone Pictures|Touchstone]] film ''[[Veronica Guerin (film)|Veronica Guerin]]'', starring [[Cate Blanchett]].<ref name=WashingtonPost />
In 2012, he started Vigliano Books, an electronic book publishing venture that has worked with authors such as [[Tim Cowlishaw]], [[Richard Belzer]], [[David Blaine]], [[Linda Davies]], and [[Jerry B. Jenkins]]. Although he continued to run it, in 2014 Vigliano sold the company to Y Entertainment. He reacquired it in April 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Lit Agent David Vigliano Re-Acquires His Agency Six Years After Sale|url=https://deadline.com/2020/04/david-vigliano-literary-agent-new-company-vigliano-associates-books-1202921518/|last=Hipes|first=Patrick|date=2020-04-30|website=Deadline|language=en|access-date=2020-05-06}}</ref>
== Personal life == Vigliano lives in New York City. He has performed as a stand-up comic at clubs in Las Vegas, Los Angeles and New York.<ref name=Gawker />
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== External links == * [http://www.viglianoassociates.com/ Vigliano Associates ]
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