Thomas Jesse Goff
- Talent Agent
Thomas Jesse Goff is a literary agent, registered in the State of
California. The writers and published authors that Goff has
successfully represented include screenwriter and investigative
reporter Charles Piller, historian and biographer Porter Williamson,
education expert Dr. Richard Moore, mystery writer Brian Lysaght,
writer Ehud Yonay, and oral historians Patricia Cooper and Norma
Bradley Allen. Goff represented Cooper and Allen in selling their oral
history, The Quilters, to the stage, a production that was nominated
for a Tony Award as Best Musical and is a continuing favorite for
production on local high school and national university stages across
the United States. Goff edited, packaged and sold to Paramount Pictures
the magazine article Top Guns, authored by Ehud Yonay, which appeared
in May 1983 in California Magazine which became the top-earning motion
picture for the year 1986 as Top Gun, starring Tom Cruise. Goff was
earlier managing editor of the Merv Griffin Show where he was segment
producer for award-winning interview 1983 interview series on the
Reagan White House and on Disney Studios. As articles editor at Esquire
Magazine, he assigned and produced the first major introduction and
investigation of the Neoconservative movement and as a senior editor at
New York Magazine, assigned and edited the magazine's major
investigative pieces including an 1977 in-depth review of the NYPD and
their mistakes in tracking down the Son of Sam killer, David Berkowitz.
He is also experienced in celebrity reputation management and has
provided critical and confidential repositioning services to some of
the nation's highest ranking chief executives and business leaders.