Founded in 1977, the Frances Goldin Literary Agency is a full-service literary agency based in New York City’s Greenwich Village. We represent literary fiction, high-quality commercial fiction, and serious controversial nonfiction, with a particular interest in books with a progressive political orientation. We represent over 100 award-winning writers, journalists, scholars, poets and activists, including Barbara Kingsolver, Dorothy Allison, Adrienne Rich, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and the Pulitzer Prize winning authors of GOTHAM, Mike Wallace and Ted Burrows.

I have been with the agency since 1997, after 10 years in academia, where I taught creative writing, literature, history and film.

Monika Bauerlein, Susan Bordo, Edwin Burrows, Pratap Chatterjee, Cliff Conner, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Bruce Grierson, Jean Harfenist, Deborah Harkness, Kristin Henderson, Harriet McBryde Johnson, Stephanie Mencimer, Miriam Peskowitz, Clancy Sigal, Tom Tomorrow, Siva Vaidhyanathan, Ian Williams

Miriam Peskowitz (co-author), The Daring Book for Girls (HarperCollins)
The follow-up to the smash hit Dangerous Book for Boys--a compendium of activities and lore for girls.

Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals (HarperPerennial)
Baby is 12-going-on-20, growing up on the streets in Montreal; a luminous debut novel, winner of the Canada Reads competition for 2007, nominated for the Governor Generals Fiction Prize

Julia Scheeres, Jesus Land (Counterpoint)
A riveting debut memoir about growing up in a white fundamentalist Christian family with two adopted black brothers.

Harriet McBryde Johnson, Accidents of Nature (Holt Books for Young Readers)
This stirring book tells the story of Jean, a 17-year-old with cerebral palsy, who attends a camp for the disabled, where all her assumptions are turned upside down.

Kristin Henderson, While They're At War: The True Story of American Families on the Homefront (Houghton Mifflin)
How military spouses and families survive when their loved ones are deployed abroad.

Tom Tomorrow, Hell in a Handbasket (Tarcher/Putnam)
The latest collection of the bitingly satirical comic strip This Modern World. In full color!

Cliff Conner, A People's History of Science (Nation Books)
A revolutionary account of how science was developed by ordinary people, rather than a few geniuses.

New or Coming Soon:

Bruce Grierson, U-Turn (Bloomsbury USA)
A highly original anatomy of the "secular conversion," the experience of throwing over one's beliefs and crossing over to the other side.

Craig Murray, Dirty Diplomacy (Scribner)
Former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, Murray was ousted when he became an outspoken critic of the "War on Terror." A vivid, gripping memoir. (Published in the UK as Murder in Samarkand summer 2006.)

Stephanie Mencimer, Blocking the Courthouse Door (Free Press)
How corporations and right-wing politicians are taking away your right to sue, and getting away with murder.

Recent Sales:

Pratap Chatterjee, Halliburton's War (Nation Books)
The inside story of the oil company that took America to war.

John Siceloff & Jason Maloney, Your America (Palgrave)
From the producers of the PBS series NOW with David Brancaccio: profiles of local activists who are taking bold intiatives to change their communities.

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