literary agent

noun

1. a person who manages the business affairs of an author

Other Word Forms

• literary agency noun

Example Sentences

The Justice Department escalated the fight months later, launching a criminal probe into Bolton’s handling of the information and issuing grand jury subpoenas to him and his literary agent.

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He sent off the finished manuscript to 25 literary agents.

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Henry writes about novelists, literary agents and librarians.

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Her clandestine involvement with her father’s close friend and literary agent, whose wife is dying of cancer, implodes, leaving her a bitter “other woman” living her own soap opera.

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Hogan was at a cocktail party before the 2023 Edgar Awards, where he was nominated for his last novel, “Gangland,” when his literary agent told him about the project and stipulations associated with it.

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