ABOUT US

The Frances Goldin Literary Agency has been the leading progressive agency in New York since it was established by Frances Goldin in 1977 to champion voices of the feminist, racial justice, LGBTQ, and other social justice movements.  Now comprising a team of 9 agents, we represent work in many genres, from literary and speculative fiction to investigative journalism, graphic novels to literary essays, history and sociology to memoir and biography, but with a special focus on excellent, serious, groundbreaking fiction and nonfiction that engage struggles for human dignity.

We partner with our clients at every stage of the publishing process, from concept development, proposal preparation, and manuscript editing to contract negotiation, publicity, and marketing. We sell rights across the full range of media, markets, and territories to advance our clients’ careers and bring their work to the largest possible audience.

The agency represents a wide range of emerging and esteemed authors, journalists, artists, poets, activists, and scholars, many of whom publish globally and have appeared on national bestseller lists and have won or been short-listed for major awards and prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize, National Humanities Medal, National Book Award, Women’s Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize), Pushcart Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, PEN/Faulkner Award, Carnegie Medal for Excellence, New York Public Library Young Lions Award, O. Henry Award, Graywolf Literary Nonfiction Award, Rona Jaffe Award, Edgar Award, Eisner Award, Nebula Award, Triangle Award, and many others, and have received NEA, Whiting, Guggenheim, and Lannan Foundation grants. 

We are enormously proud of our entire family of authors and their incredible, inspirational work.