Jon Michael Darga is an agent at Aevitas Creative Management, where he represents both fiction and nonfiction, including, most recently, the biography Vivian Maier Developed by Ann Marks, the cookbook Cookies: The New Classics by Jesse Szewczyk, and the New York Times bestseller How to Save a Life by Lynette Rice. Prior to working at Aevitas, he was an editor at Crown, a division within Penguin Random House, where he worked on several non-fiction bestsellers and award winners. He graduated from the University of Michigan with Honors with a BA in English and Creative Writing, and later attended the Columbia University publishing program.