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agent : kathleen@andersonliterary.com
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Kathleen Anderson
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Anderson Literary Management, LLC
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Kathleen Anderson, formerly a partner of Anderson Grinberg Literary Management, Inc., is president of Anderson Literary Management, LLC. She is particularly interested in serious nonfiction and literary journalism (narrative nonfiction, psychology, history, science, anthropology, memoir, cultural studies, biography, and women’s studies), as well as literary fiction, general women’s fiction, and very well-written commercial fiction (psychological suspense, historical fiction, lady-lit, chick-lit), She also represents many prestigious children’s and young adult writers. Her work as an executive editor at W.W. Norton and Simon and Schuster has given her special expertise in developing nonfiction proposals and first fiction.
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years experience: 27 years
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GENRES & SPECIALTIES
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General fiction, Juvenile fiction, Biography, History, Health, Travel, Children's books, African-American, Science, Literary journalism, Politics, Current affairs, Feminist
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TRADE REFERENCES
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ALL MAJOR PUBLISHERS
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LEADING CLIENTS
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Emma Donoghue, Linda Olsson, Charles Bowden, George Packer, Rafi Zabor, Richard Mason, Marcia Willett, Jane Shaw, Molly Peacock, Anna Oliver, Anna Beer, Janet Todd, Glen Hirshberg, Chuck Wachtel, Piers Vitebsky, Nadeem Aslam, Barry Lyga, Craig Childs, Sarah Bilston, Amy Ryan, Dina and Daniel Nayeri, Jacques Leslie
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BEST-KNOWN PROJECTS
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THE ASSASSINS' GATE, winner of Overseas Press Club Award 2005 (George Packer); SLAMMERKIN (Emma Donoghue); THE BEAR COMES HOME (Rafi Zabor, Pen Faulkner Award), THE DROWNING PEOPLE (Richard Mason); THE CLIMB (Anatoli Boukreev & G. Weston DeWalt); JOE THE ENGINEER (Chuck Wachtel, PEN Hemingway Award)
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MOST RECENT SALES/ FORTHCOMING BOOKS
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ASTRID & VERONIKA by Linda Olsson (Penguin); THE DEATH TRUST by David Rollins (Bantam); THE REINDEER PEOPLE by Piers Vitebsky, winner of Kiriyama Prize for Nonfiction 2005 (Houghton Mifflin) THE WASTED VIGIL by Nadeem Aslam, winner of Kiriyama Prize for Fiction, 2004 (Knopf); OCTAVIA: Daughter of God by Jane Shaw (Knopf); THE BRONTE MYTH by Lucasta Miller (Knopf); COLDHARBOUR by Margaret Leroy (FSG), SONGS FOR THE BUTCHER'S DAUGHTER by Peter Manseau (The Free Press); THE ASSASSINS' GATE by George Packer (FSG); DOWN BY THE RIVER: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family by Charles Bowden (S&S); THE SEALED LETTER by Emma Donoghue (Harcourt), UNTAPPED by John Ghazvinian (Harcourt), THE ANIMAL DIALOGUES by Craig Childs (Little Brown), HOUSE OF RAIN by Craig Childs (Little Brown)
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MOST RECENT RIGHTS SALES
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HERO-TYPE by Barry Lyga (Houghton Mifflin), COLDHARBOUR by Margaret Leroy (FSG), VIBES by Amy Ryan (Houghton Mifflin), THE EXPLOSIONIST by Jenny Davidson (HarperCollins)
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OTHER LEADING RIGHTS OFFERINGS
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Television, Film, Translation, Dramatic, Lecture
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SPECIALIZED TRAINING, WORK EXPERIENCE, HONORS
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Kathleen Anderson, a graduate of Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, is an award-winning editor and agent who has been working in the publishing business since 1979—first as an editor at W.W. Norton for nine years and then as a senior editor at Poseidon, a division of Simon & Schuster. She is a recipient of the Tony Godwin Award, which is given to an outstanding American editor under 35 who is then sent to England to learn about British publishing. She was also selected to be among the first group of editorial fellows from the United States to attend the Jerusalem Book Fair in 1985.
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SUB-AGENTS/ RIGHTS CONTACTS
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Foreign Rights: adriann@andersonliterary.com
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SUB-AGENT FOR
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Conville and Walsh, Ltd.,A.M. Heath, Ltd.; Caroline Davidson; Dinah Wiener
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KEY PERSONNEL
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Kathleen Anderson (kathleen@andersonliterary.com)
Adriann Ranta (adriann@andersonliterary.com)
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SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
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By mail: Nonfiction: proposal and resume
Creative Nonfiction and Fiction: Proposal/Synopsis and up to 50 pages
Please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope to receive a response.
By email: NO email queries. For any submission or status questions, please email adriann@andersonliterary.com
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