Jane von Mehren has spent four decades working in publishing—as an editor and publisher at Crown, Houghton Mifflin, Penguin Books, and Random House, and literary agent at Aevitas Creative Management, where she is a Senior Partner. She has worked with multiple New York Times bestselling authors, and her writers have been nominated or awarded the National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, Pulitzer Prize, Whiting Award, PEN/Hemingway and PEN/Faulkner awards, among others. Her list includes narrative nonfiction, science, history, economics, health & wellness, pop culture, psychology, literary, historical, and book club fiction, thrillers, YA, and, of course, memoir. Among the memoirs she has represented are They All Went to Barneys by Gene Pressman, You Never Know by Tom Selleck, Admissions by Kendra James, The Widowers Notebook by Jonathan Santlofer, and The Mother Code by Ruthie Ackerman.

A New York City native, she attended Vassar College where she studied poetry—what turned out to be an excellent education for her career as an editor and agent.