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Ronnie Gramazio, a literary agent with Martin Literary Management, was born and raised in Australia. He graduated from college with a degree in journalism and English literature. In the late 1980s he began his career working on local Australian public radio as a junior news reader and compiled hourly news bulletins. Ronnie also wrote human interest articles for local newspapers. Immediately after graduating from college, he entered the publishing industry working for numerous independent presses in Melbourne before moving to Sydney where he worked for such major houses as Simon & Schuster and Wiley.

His publishing career, which spans 15 years, has included working in all facets of the industry, from marketing and publicity to project editing and acquiring. Prior to relocating to New York City, he was involved in the development and launch of the trade program at Wiley Australia, where he published a number of best-sellers including A Figure of Speech by illustrious political speech writer Graham Freudenberg and the true crime account of a 1966 unsolved case entitled Searching for the Beaumont Children by prolific author Alan J. Whiticker.

He has been a Chair and moderator at the prestigious Sydney Writers' Festival, appeared on a select panel of publishers from London and Australia at the Brisbane Writers' Festival, and he has spoken at the Melbourne and Adelaide festivals - all major international literary stops for visiting authors from Europe, Asia, and the United States.

Ronnie moved to New York City with his wife (who is an editor and writer) in 2006 and continued to work as an acquiring editor in publishing. His role in acquisitions led to his string of contacts within the publishing industry in the United States. He signed Truth At Last, which he bought from Sharlene Martin at Martin Literary Management. Written by Jon Larry Ray, the brother of Dr. Martin Luther King assassinator, James Earl Ray, it is scheduled for publication in Spring, 2008 (Lyons Press). This was just the beginning of his business relationship with Sharlene. In November 2007, he started work as an agent at Martin Literary Management, setting up the New York City office of this esteemed agency; he primarily represents authors of fiction, children's and true crime books.

He lives in Connecticut with his wife, Vanessa, and spoiled cat, Mink, who also made the 22-hour journey from Sydney to New York City.