I have loved books and the journeys they offer since I was five years old and learned to read. In 2018 she was named WOMAN OF THE YEAR, by the Womens Media Group. A former president of the AAR, she served on its board for many years and continues to be active in various committees. She is a member of the International Women's Forum, the Women's Media Group, PEN, and the AAR (Association of Authors' Representatives with some 300 member agents).

In 1972, she joined Liveright as one of two acquiring senior editors. She translated books and articles from French and Italian and wrote book reviews for The New York Times, The Village Voice, and Publishers Weekly. Prior to founding her agency, Jean Naggar worked as a freelance editor. Jean has always looked for writers with an arresting unusual 'voice,' who work with subject matter that has not been “mined to death.” She has been the keynote speaker and given workshops at many writers' conferences throughout the United States, and her article in the 2000 Guide to Literary Agents has been reprinted many times. Auel, the novels of Mary McGarry Morris, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Sarah Waters, Nancy Willard, Lily Prior and Ellis Avery, the thrillers of Phillip Margolin, mysteries of Ingrid Parker, Christopher Sansom, Gillian Roberts and Morag Joss, the historical novels of Karleen Koen, Jay Schauer, Donna Cross, David Ball and Judith Merkle Riley, literary narrative nonfiction of Carl Safina (winner of a McArthur award and a Lannan Award), science and philosophy by Robert Pollack and Ed Regis, the poetry of award nominees Linda Pastan and Nancy Willard and the sophisticated self-help of Carol Lindquist and Joe Luciani. Her list includes the Earth's Children series by Jean M. She is considered an ace strategist by her clients, and has sold a wide range of fiction and nonfiction. Her eclectic, broad-ranging taste in fiction and nonfiction has led to many award-winning titles and many best-selling books in the past few years. in 1978 in New York City, where she had previously worked as an editor, writer and translator.

Before Versailles by Karleen Koen