ABOUT US

Emma Sweeney Agency LLC was formed in 2006 and is a boutique literary agency based in New York City. We've had four New York Times bestsellers, including Water for Elephants, Ape House, Making Rounds with Oscar, and The Joy of Living. Our authors have won The Booker Prize and the American Book Award, been short-listed for the National Book Award and the Orange Prize, and are the recipients of NEA grants and Rhodes scholarships. We specialize in general fiction, historical fiction and narrative nonfiction projects including memoir, history, science and religion. We work with co-agents in every territory, from the UK and Australia to Germany, Spain, France, Italy, eastern Europe, and Asia, and make dozens of foreign rights sales (as well as audio and first serial sales) for our clients every year.

Emma Sweeney is a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives and the Women's Media Group, where she served as president in 2003. She graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a BA in English Literature. Emma is also a writer whose own books include Tulipa (Artisan, 2000) and As Always, Jack (Little, Brown, 2002; Back Bay Books, 2003).

Suzanne Rindell is an assistant and agent-in-training at ESA. She is currently a PhD candidate in literature at Rice University.

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