ABOUT

My writers include journalists from top magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Time, Harper’s, Vanity Fair, and the New Yorker. Recently published nonfiction include Joshua Foer's MOONWALKING WITH EINSTEIN, Manning Marable's MALCOLM X: A LIFE OF REINVENTION, Masha Gessen's THE MAN WITHOUT A FACE, and D.T. Max's EVERY LOVE STORY IS A GHOST STORY: A LIFE OF DAVID FOSTER WALLACE. Authors include Warren St. John, Jodi Kantor, Terri Jentz, James Wolcott, A.O. Scott, Burkhard Bilger and others.

My fiction interests range from the literary to upmarket commercial. I represent Suzanne Rivecca, former Stegner Fellow and author of the critically lauded collection DEATH IS NOT AN OPTION, Benjamin Kunkel, author of the highly acclaimed INDECISION, and Nathaniel Rich, author of THE MAYOR'S TONGUE and the forthcoming ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW. I was also the agent for Jess Row's THE TRAIN TO LO WU and Sister Souljah’s classic novel THE COLDEST WINTER EVER, and am increasingly interested in commercial fiction, thrillers and women’s fiction.

GENRES & SPECIALTIES

Fiction Genres:
• Commercial Fiction, Upmarket
• Family Saga
• Historical Fiction
• Literary Fiction
• Short Story
• Suspense
• Women’s, Upmarket

Nonfiction Genres:
• Biography
• Business
• Current Events
• Economics
• Journalism
• Memoir
• Narrative
• Politics
• Science
• Social Science

For all foreign rights inquiries, please contact Alexander Jacobs: alex@cheneyliterary.com.

Elyse Cheney, Agent

Please email a query (no attachments please) to submissions@cheneyliterary.com.