Selected Fiction & Non-fiction Projects

(Note: Joanna and the agency have worked on over 500 books; here is a list of some of her favorites. For other favorites, please see the Selected Photography Projects list; the asterisk denotes a bestseller)

A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman  *

Any Small Thing Can Save You, Christina Adam

American Lithographers, Clinton Adams

London Fields, Martin Amis  *

Sisters of the Earth, edited by Lorraine Anderson

Georgia O’Keeffe: The New York Years, edited by Doris Bry & Nicholas Calloway

River of the West; Stories of the Columbia, Robert Clark

Ghost Hunting in Montana, Barnaby Conrad, III

Mayordomo, Stanley Crawford

Clearing Customs, Martha Egan (forthcoming spring ’05)

Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth, Claude S. Fischer, et al.

Wildlife, Richard Ford

The Lobo Outback Funeral Home, Dave Foreman 

Rewilding North America: A Vision for Conservation in the 21^st Century, Dave Foreman 

Southwestern Pottery, Anasazi to Zuni, Allan Hayes and John Blom

A Virtuous Woman, Kaye Gibbons  *

Wild at Heart, Barry Gifford  *

The Land was Everything, Victor Davis Hanson

The Last Odd Day, Lynne Hinton

Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro *

Field Notes from the Grand Canyon: Raging River, Quiet Mind, Teresa Jordan 

Field Notes from Yosemite, Teresa Jordan

Running the Amazon, Joe Kane 

Strike the Baby & Kill the Blonde: An Insider’s Guide to Film Slang, Dave Knox (forthcoming spring ’05)

Brandchild, Martin Lindstrom

Taxi From Hell, Vladimir Lobas

Crossing Open Ground, Barry Lopez

My Traitor’s Heart: A South African Exile Returns to Face His Country, His Tribe, and His Conscience, Rian Malan

Keep the Change, Thomas McGuane

The Return of the Wolf to Yellowstone, Thomas McNamee

Only the Nails Remain: Scenes from the Balkan Wars, Christopher Merrill,

Brand Lands: Hot Spots and Cool Places, Christian Mikunda

Let Nobody Turn Us Around: An African-American Anthology, edited by Manning Marable & Leith Mullings

The Island Within, Richard Nelson

Rooms & Fields: Dramatic Monologues from the War in Bosnia, Lee Peterson

The Wicked Pavilion, Dawn Powell

Angels on Toast, Dawn Powell

Native New Yorkers: The Legacy of the Algonquin Peoples of New York, Evan Pritchard

The Duino Elegies, Rainer Maria Rilke

Jazz Cleopatra, Phyllis Rose

Mabel Dodge Luhan: A Biography, Lois Rudnick

Utopian Vistas: The Mabel Dodge Luhan House and the American Counterculture, Lois Rudnick

The Risk Pool, Richard Russo  *

God Without Religion: Questioning Centuries of Accepted Truths, Sankara Saranam, (forthcoming summer ’05)

Louder Than Words, edited by William Shore

The Wholeness of a Broken Heart, Katie Singer  *

Fibroids: The Complete Guide to Taking Charge of Your Physical, Emotional, & Sexual Well-Being,  Johanna Skilling

Never let ’em see you sweat, Phil Slott

God’s Country Club, Gail Donohue Storey

The Lord’s Motel,a Gail Donohue Storey

The Woman Who Married A Bear: An Alaskan Mystery, John Straley

Cold Water Burning, John Straley  *

The Grifters, Jim Thompson

After Dark, My Sweet, Jim Thompson

The Player, Michael Tolkin  *

The People: Indians of the American Southwest, Words & Photographs by Stephen Trimble

Media Monoliths, by Mark Tungate

The House of Exile, Nora Waln

Sweet Deal, John Westerman

Girl Walking Backwards, Bett Williams

State of Grace, Joy Williams