Veteran international literary scout John McLay has joined 20th Century Fox "to bolster its book scouting ranks," a move that "should help to continue its successful run of films based on young adult fiction," including The Fault in Our Stars and The Maze Runner series, Deadline wrote. Reporting to Fox senior literary consultant Drew Reed, he "will serve exclusively as the studio's young adult and children's literary scout."
McLay has worked as an international literary scout for children's book publishers, including Gallimard Jeunesse in France, Ravensburger Buchverlag in Germany and Rizzoli in Italy. He is also the founder of the Bath Children's Literature Festival and author of several children's books.