Vicky Bijur started her agency in 1988 after working at Oxford University Press and with the Charlotte Sheedy Literary Agency. She represents fiction and non-fiction. Books she represents have appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List, in the New York Times Notable Books of the Year, Los Angeles Times Best Fiction of the Year, Washington Post Book World Rave Reviews of the Year, won the Quill Award for Mystery, and been nominated for the L.A. Times Book Award as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award. Three of her mystery writers have won Edgar awards.

Vicky has served as president of the AAR (Association of Authors’ Representatives), the only organization of literary and dramatic agents in North America. She is currently Chair of its Ethics Committee.

Vicky has been profiled in Poets & Writers and in Literary Agents: A Writer’s Introduction by John Baker (Macmillan). She has been quoted on the subject of agenting in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and Entertainment Weekly. For two years she taught “The Role of the Literary Agent” at NYU. She frequently appears on panels at the ASJA’s annual meeting.

New York Times bestseller Laura Lippman (NY Times Notable Book list and winner of the Quill Award for Mystery/Thriller/Suspense); Larry Gonick, author of THE CARTOON HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE; Margaret Maron, winner of Edgar, Anthony, Agatha awards for best novel; James Sallis (NY Times Notable Book list and Entertainment Weekly list of top ten novels); New York Times reporter Steven Greenhouse, author of THE BIG SQUEEZE (Knopf, 2008); Lisa Genova, author of STILL ALICE (Pocket Books, 2009); Jason Denton/Kathryn Kellinger, SIMPLE ITALIAN SANDWICHES; Julie Smith, winner of Edgar for best novel; Herbert Benson, M.D.; Jack Gorman, M.D.; Alan Greene, M.D., author of RAISING BABY GREEN series; Ed Levine, frequent contributor to New York Times; Dave Pasternack; Edgar nominee Anne Argula; Darryl Ponicsan; Julia Fox Garrison (in Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers program);

Larry Gonick's CARTOON HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE, volumes 1-3 (Doubleday and Norton), CARTOON HISTORY OF THE MODERN WORLD (Collins); WHAT THE DEAD KNOW by Laura Lippman (Harper); Margaret Maron's twenty-five books (Warner Books, Bantam Books); THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY by Robert Kanigel (Scribner); CHESTER HIMES: A LIFE by James Sallis (Walker) and DRIVE by James Sallis (Poisoned Pen and Harcourt); New YORK EATS by Ed Levine; THE BREAK-OUT PRINCIPLE by Herbert Benson, M.D., and William Proctor (Scribner); SIMPLE ITALIAN SANDWICHES (Wm. Morrow); THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO PSYCHIATRIC DRUGS by Jack Gorman, M.D. (St. Martin's); over fifteen books by Julie Smith (St. Martin's, Ballantine, Tor)

STILL ALICE by Lisa Genova (Pocket Books, 2009); Three untitled books by Laura Lippman (William Morrow, 2010, 2011,2012; Laura Lippman novella to New York Times Magazine; THE CARTOON GUIDE TO CALCULUS by Larry Gonick (Collins, 2011); CARTOON HISTORY OF THE MODERN WORLD, Part 2 by Larry Gonick (HarperCollins, 2009); RAISING BABY GREEN GUIDE TO NUTRITION by Alan Greene, M.D. (Jossey-Bass, 2009); SIMPLE ITALIAN SNACKS by Jason Denton and Kathryn Kellinger (William Morrow, 2008); THE BIG SQUEEZE by Steven Greenhouse (Knopf, 2008); LIFE SENTENCES by Laura Lippman (William Morrow, 2009); DEATH'S HALF ACRE by Margaret Maron (Grand Central, 2008); KRAPP'S LAST CASSETTE by Anne Argula (Ballantine, 2009); SHIMURA TROUBLE by Sujata Massey (Severn House, 2008)

Film rights to EVERY SECRET THING by Laura Lippman optioned by Frances McDormand; film rights to DRIVE by James Sallis optioned for Hugh Jackman at Universal Studios by Marc Jaffe Productions; film rights to THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY optioned by Matt Brown and Ed Pressman; UK rights to WHAT THE DEAD KNOW by Laura Lippman to Orion; audio rights to HARD ROW by Margaret Maron to Recorded Books; recent sales to Sweden, Korea, Germany, Italy, France, Holland,Taiwan, Finland, UK, Thailand, Czech Republic

Former president, Association of Authors' Representatives (AAR), 1999-2000
Current Chair, AAR Ethics Committee
Board Member of the Association of Authors' Representatives, 1996-2000
Former Chair, AAR Royalty Committee
Member, AAR Royalty Committee, 1993-present
Agent at Charlotte Sheedy Literary Agency, Inc., 1986-87; Oxford University Press 1976-85

I work with sub-agents in all principal foreign countries and with film agents at a variety of agencies.

Assistant: Claire Dunnington
assistant@vickybijuragency.com

Fiction: query and first chapter (if emailed, please paste chapter into body of email as I don't open attachments from unfamiliar senders)
Nonfiction: query and proposal
No phone or fax queries
If you query by hard copy, please include an SASE for my response. If you want your material returned, include an SASE large enough to contain pages