The definitive guide to finding a literary agent, this revised and updated edition--previously unavailable to bookstores--contains information about rights and reading fees, includes a selected list of agents who handle both fiction and nonfiction, and explores the delicate balance of a successful agent-writer relationship.
Adam Begley was for twelve years the books editor of The New York Observer. He has been a Guggenheim fellow and a fellow at the Leon Levy Center for Biography. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Guardian, Financial Times, London Review of Books, and Times Literary Supplement. He lives with his wife in Cambridgeshire, England.