Rob Kirkpatrick

Rob Kirkpatrick is an American literary agent, editor, author, and blogger. He has published the books of many well-known authors, primarily in the field of nonfiction. He is also an author in his own right, most notably of the narrative history 1969: The Year Everything Changed.

Rob Kirkpatrick was born and raised in upstate New York. His father was the Town Supervisor for Newburgh (town), New York who coined the town's official motto "Crossroads of the Northeast" and his mother was a Reading Recovery teacher. Kirkpatrick attended Wallkill Senior High School and graduated with a bachelor's degree from Rutgers University.

Kirkpatrick works a commissioning editor in the book publishing industry. He has published a wide range of writers including New York Times bestselling authors Bryan Bishop and Leigh Steinberg, as well as Alex Storozynski, Tom Ridge, Leana Wen, Linda Cohn, Mark Oliver Everett, Lisa Kennedy Montgomery, Bud Harrelson, Kurt Loder, Leon Hendrix, Sean Lahman, John Hemingway, Mark K. Updegrove, Ron Christie, Don Ed Hardy, Bill Rodgers (athlete), Viv Albertine, Shannon Miller, Dennis Dunaway, and David Silverman.

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