Clients

CURRENT

Janice P. Nimura – The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine (Norton, January 2021), an instant New York Times and Indie bestseller; four starred pre-pub reviews – in collaboration with Whitney Peeling
Te-Ping Chen – Land of Big Numbers (HMH, February 2021)
Gabriela Garcia – Of Women and Salt (Flatiron/Macmillan, March 2021)
Clint Smith – How the Word Is Passed: A Journey across the Country That Black America Built (Little, Brown, June 2021) – in collaboration with Whitney Peeling
Kristen Radtke – Seek You: A Journey through American Loneliness (Pantheon, July 2021)
Anthony Veasna So – Afterparties (Ecco, August 2021)
Maggie Nelson – On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint (Graywolf Press, September 2021)
The Whiting Foundation – year-round, including the Whiting Awards, Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grants, and Whiting Literary Magazine Prizes

FORMER

Ayad Akhtar – Homeland Elegies (Little, Brown), one of the New York Times‘ “Top 10 Books of 2021” and New York Times critic Dwight Garner’s “Top Ten Books of 2020,” a New York Times Notable Book, and a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection; one of the Washington Post‘s “10 Best Books of 2020,” Entertainment Weekly‘s “10 Best Books of 2020,” New Yorker critic Katy Waldman’s “10 Favorite Novels of 2020,” Slate‘s “10 Best Books of 2020,” Publishers Weekly‘s “10 Best Books of 2020,” TIME‘s “10 Best Fiction Books of 2020,” Oprah Magazine‘s “20 Best Books of 2020,” and Kirkus Reviews‘ “Best Fiction Books of 2020”; included in NPR, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Christian Science Monitor, Booklist, Library Journal, and Shelf Awareness’s “Best Books of 2020” lists; shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
Natasha Trethewey – Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir (Ecco), an instant New York Times bestseller, New York Times Notable Book, and New York Times Editors’ Choice selection; one of the Washington Post‘s “10 Best Books of 2020,” New York Times critic Dwight Garner’s “Top Ten Books of 2020,” L.A. Times’s “10 Best Books of 2020,” Slate‘s “10 Best Books of 2020,” and TIME‘s “10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2020”; included in NPR, ELLE, Esquire, InStyle, USA Today, Amazon, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Shelf Awareness, BookPage, Booklist, and Library Journal‘s “Best Books of 2020” lists; shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
Kevin Young – African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song (Library of America), a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection; one of New York Times critic Parul Sehgal’s “Top Ten Books of 2020,” New York Times Book Review‘s “Best Poetry Books of 2020,” Chicago Tribune‘s “10 Best Books of 2020,” Barnes & Noble’s “10 Best Poetry Books of 2020,” Oprah Magazine‘s “20 Best Books of 2020,” TIME‘s “100 Must-Reads of 2020,” and Esquire‘s “Best Books of 2020”
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), an NPR “Best Book of 2020” pick
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)
American Booksellers Association