The Frances Goldin Literary Agency is one of New York’s premier boutique literary agencies, representing over 150 authors of fiction and nonfiction. Founded in 1977, the agency is committed to books that change the world as well as engage and enlighten. Among our award-winning and bestselling writers are Dorothy Allison, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Eula Biss, John D’Agata, Martin Duberman, Deborah Harkness, Barbara Kingsolver, James Kugel, Adrienne Rich, Siva Vaidhyanathan and Mike Wallace.

As a full-service agency, we handle film, serial, translation and other subsidiary rights sales, as well as offering career management and marketing assistance and online and digital resources for our clients. We are energized by the changing book market and work to help our authors thrive in this challenging publishing environment.

I have been with the agency since 1997; before that I spent 10 years in academia, where I taught creative writing, literature, history and film.

Susan Bordo, Edwin Burrows, Pratap Chatterjee, Cliff Conner, Dan Duane, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Bruce Grierson, Jean Harfenist, Deborah Harkness, Kristin Henderson, Michael Hudson, Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob, Harriet McBryde Johnson, Anna Lappe, Stephanie Mencimer, Rutu Modan, Janisse Ray, Gretchen Reynolds, Clancy Sigal, Siva Vaidhyanathan, Helene Wecker, Marianne Wesson

Deborah Harkness
A Discovery of Witches (Viking)
A tale of science and magic in which a long-lost alchemical manuscript is discovered at the Bodleian Library at Oxford, leading to romance between a 1,500 year old vampire and a witch in denial of her powers. First of a trilogy; New York Times bestseller; rights sold in 38 countries to date. Film option to Warner Bros.

Miriam Peskowitz (co-author), The Daring Book for Girls (HarperCollins)
The follow-up to the smash hit Dangerous Book for Boys--a compendium of activities and lore for girls.

Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals (HarperPerennial)
Baby is 12-going-on-20, growing up on the streets in Montreal; a luminous debut novel, winner of the Canada Reads competition for 2007, nominated for the Governor Generals Fiction Prize

Julia Scheeres, Jesus Land (Counterpoint)
A riveting debut memoir about growing up in a white fundamentalist Christian family with two adopted black brothers.

Harriet McBryde Johnson, Accidents of Nature (Holt Books for Young Readers)
This stirring book tells the story of Jean, a 17-year-old with cerebral palsy, who attends a camp for the disabled, where all her assumptions are turned upside down.

Kristin Henderson, While They're At War: The True Story of American Families on the Homefront (Houghton Mifflin)
How military spouses and families survive when their loved ones are deployed abroad.

Cliff Conner, A People's History of Science (Nation Books)
A revolutionary account of how science was developed by ordinary people, rather than a few geniuses.

Recently Published:

Michael Hudson
The Monster (Times Books)
The true history of subprime lending, from its roots in Southern California boiler rooms, to the collapse of Lehman Brothers, by a journalist who has been one of the primary chroniclers of predatory lending.

Anna Lappe
Diet for a Hot Planet (Bloomsbury)
The misunderstood link between the world food system and climate change, by a rising star advocate of sustainable living.

Carla Peterson
Black Gotham (Yale)
A history of African-American life in New York in the 19th century, through the lens of the author's own family.

Siva Vaidhyanathan
The Googlization of Everything (University of California)
How Google is transforming modern culture, commerce and communication...not necessarily for the better.

Recent Sales:

Daniel Duane
How to Cook Like a Man (Bloomsbury)
A hilarious memoir of cooking obsession, by the author of the classic surfing memoir Caught Inside.

Rutu Modan
Day of the Dead (Drawn & Quarterly; Jonathan Cape)
A comedy in which an elderly Israeli woman travels to Warsaw with her granddaughter to reclaim her family's apartment, lost during WWII, while secretly hoping to meet the Polish lover of her youth. Modan's first graphic novel since the Eisner Award-winning EXIT WOUNDS.

Gretchen Reynolds
The First Twenty Minutes (Hudson Street)
The scientific research that is changing our understanding of exercise, fitness and training, including practical guidelines for achieving peak physical and mental performance.

Helene Wecker
The Golem and the Djinni, (HarperCollins)
A magical realist fable: the story of a female golem and a male djinni, who arrive in New York in 1899 and pass for human, then meet and bond although they are from entirely different worlds.

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