Literary agents for memoir

Phrasemill lists literary agents who want memoir, based on what they say on their public websites. This page shows 10 of 364 agents. Agents whose websites say they are closed to submissions are omitted. How it works.

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Florence Rees
A.M. Heath & Co. · GB
I love that feeling of having to read one more chapter. Characters (real or fictional) can stay with me for years. I’ve spent memorable hours weeping over the last pages in the beautiful, heart-wrenching memoirs of Paul…
Euan Thorneycroft
A.M. Heath & Co. · GB
I am looking for a book that I'll be thinking about long after I finish the last page. This could be a twisty suspense with an exciting and original hook (I love a high concept hook!) or an epic or intimate love story wi…
Sarah Bowlin
Aevitas Creative Management · US
As an Aevitas agent based in Los Angeles, she is focused on bold, diverse voices in fiction and nonfiction. She’s especially interested in stories of strong or difficult women and unexpected narratives of place, of iden…
Karen Brailsford
Aevitas Creative Management · US
Karen is based in Los Angeles and is especially interested in arts and entertainment, memoir, biography, health and wellness, spirituality and works of non-fiction that inspire and shine a light on contemporary condition…
Jon Michael Darga
Aevitas Creative Management · US
Jon Michael Darga represents titles across a diverse range of genres, including memoir (most recently, the New York Times bestselling Vagabond by Tim Curry), pop culture (New York Times bestsellers How to Save a Life by…
Jenni Ferrari-Adler
Aevitas Creative Management · US
Jenni specializes in literary fiction and loves everything from traditional novels, to the dark and twisty, the voicey, the funny, and the strange. She represents family dramas, social novels, thrillers, horror, story c…
Lori Galvin
Aevitas Creative Management · US
Lori specializes in upmarket fiction with propulsive storylines—book club, mystery, suspense, and psychologically layered narratives—and selectively represents cookbooks and literary memoir. Lori Galvin is a literary ag…
Sarah Levitt
Aevitas Creative Management · US
Sarah Levitt represents critically acclaimed, award-winning, and NYT bestselling nonfiction and select fiction writers (including two MacArthur "Geniuses" and counting). Her list includes journalists, academics, historia…
Lauren Liebow
Aevitas Creative Management · US
Karen Murgolo
Aevitas Creative Management · US
Based in New York, Karen is interested in authoritative health, wellness, science and psychology, spirituality, inspirational (or just really fun) memoirs; original cookbooks, and narratives that illuminate a compelling…

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