Partner and co-founder of Boston-based agency Kneerim & Williams Jill Kneerim died on April 22 at age 83. She was an editor at Simon & Schuster and co-founder of Grossman Publishers, then in 1990 founded the agency with Ike Williams. Her authors included Pulitzer Prize winners Matthew Desmond, Caroline Elkins, and Stephen Greenblatt among others, including Brad Meltzer, who paid tribute to her online: “For 28 years now, she taught me to have faith in growth — and to have faith in myself. Especially these last five years as I pushed to be a better writer.” Her colleagues at Kneerim […]
