Clients

CURRENT

Ayad Akhtar – Homeland Elegies (Little, Brown), one of Publishers Weekly‘s “10 Best Books of 2020”
Kevin Young – African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song (Library of America, October 2020)
Janice Nimura – The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women–and Women to Medicine (Norton, January 2021)
Te-Ping Chen – Land of Big Numbers (HMH, February 2021)
Gabriela Garcia – Of Women and Salt (Flatiron/Macmillan, April 2021)
Clint Smith – How the Word Is Passed: A Journey across the Country That Black America Built (Little, Brown, June 2021)
Kevin Young – year-round marketing work
The Whiting Foundation – year-round, including the Whiting Awards, Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grants, and Whiting Literary Magazine Prizes

FORMER

Natasha Trethewey – Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir (Ecco), a New York Times bestseller
Sarah M. Broom – The Yellow House (Grove Atlantic), winner of the 2019 National Book Award in Nonfiction and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Award; finalist for an NAACP Image Award; one of the New York Times‘s “Ten Best Books of 2019,” a New York Times Notable Book, and a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection; cover of the New York Times Book Review; and a New York Times and Indie bestseller
Namwali Serpell – The Old Drift (Hogarth/Penguon Random House), winner of a Windham-Campbell Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and Arthur C. Clarke Award; cover of the New York Times Book Review (review by Salman Rushdie); a New York Times Notable Book and New York Times Editors’ Choice selection
Leslie Jamison – Make It Scream, Make It Burn: Essays (Little, Brown), finalist for the PEN Award for the Art of the Essay; and The Recovering: Addiction and its Aftermath (Little, Brown), a New York Times and Indie bestseller; one of Entertainment Weekly‘s “10 Best Books of the Decade” and Entertainment Weekly‘s #1 Nonfiction Book of 2018; Lit Hub‘s #1 Best-Reviewed Memoir of 2018; and a New York Times Notable Book and New York Times Editors’ Choice selection
Nicole Dennis-Benn – Patsy (Liveright/W.W. Norton), finalist for the Aspen Words Literary Prize and Lambda Literary Award; longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award; a New York Times Notable Book and New York Times Editors’ Choice selection; and Here Comes the Sun (Liveright/W.W. Norton), a Lambda Literary Award winner; Center for Fiction First Novel Prize shortlist; National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Award finalist; Young Lions Award finalist; and New York Times Notable Book and New York Times Editors’ Choice selection
Luis Alberto Urrea –The House of Broken Angels (Little, Brown), a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; cover of the New York Times Book Review; New York Times Notable Book and New York Times Editors’ Choice selection; and Indie bestseller
Kevin Young – Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News (Graywolf Press), the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Nonfiction winner; National Book Award longlist; National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; $75,000 PEN/Jean Stein Award finalist; and New York Times Notable Book and New York Times Editors’ Choice selection
Jordy Rosenberg – Confessions of the Fox (One World/Penguin Random House), shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize; a Lambda Literary Award finalist; and a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection
Ada Limón – The Carrying (Milkweed Editions), winner of the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry and a $75,000 PEN Jean Stein Award finalist
Paul Lisicky – Later: My Life at the Edge of the World (Graywolf Press)
Mark Doty – What Is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life (Norton)
Natasha Trethewey – Monument: Poems New and Selected (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), longlisted for the National Book Award and a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection
Elizabeth McCracken – Bowlaway (Ecco), a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection
Megan Abbott – Give Me Your Hand (Little, Brown), finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection
Tom Perrotta – Mrs. Fletcher (Scribner), cover of the New York Times Book Review; a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection and New York Times and Indie bestseller
Adrienne Brodeur – Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), a New England Society 2020 Book Award winner
Edward Carey – Little (Riverhead Books) and Heap House (Overlook Press), a New York Times Notable Book
Mary-Louise Parker – Dear Mr. You (Scribner), a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection and New York Times and Indie bestseller
Vikram Chandra –Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty (Graywolf Press), an NBCC Award in Criticism finalist; a New York Times bestseller, New York Times Notable Book, and New York Times Editors’ Choice selection
Lidia Yuknavitch – The Book of Joan (Harper), cover of the New York Times Book Review and a New York Times Notable Book and New York Times Editor’s Choice selection
Chelsey Johnson – Stray City (Custom House/HarperCollins), a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection
Kristen Radtke – Imagine Wanting Only This (Pantheon), a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection
Max Porter – Grief is the Thing with Feathers (Graywolf Press), a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection
Belle Boggs – The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood (Graywolf Press), a PEN Award for the Art of the Essay finalist and cover of the New York Times Book Review
Matthew Zapruder – Why Poetry (Ecco), a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection
Lauren Grodstein – Our Short History (Algonquin Books)
Christopher Bollen – The Destroyers (Harper), a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection
Sunil Yapa – Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist, paperback edition (Lee Boudreaux Books/Little, Brown)
Adam Grant – Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World (Viking), a #1 New York Times bestseller
Janice Nimura – Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back (W. W. Norton), a New York Times Notable Book
Tim Johnston – Descent (Algonquin Books), a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection and New York Times, USA Today, and Indie bestseller
Sara Gruen – At the Water’s Edge (Spiegel & Grau/Random House), a New York Times, USA Today, and Indie bestseller
Michael McGriff and J. M. Tyree – Our Secret Life in the Movies (A Strange Object)
Cary Fowler – Seeds on Ice: Svalbard and the Global Seed Vault (Prospecta Press)
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