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Susan Rabiner co-founded Susan Rabiner Literary with Alfred Fortunato (with whom she co-wrote Thinking Like Your Editor: How to Write Great Serious Nonfiction and Get It Published) as a boutique agency dedicated to big idea books, the type of books she published as a senior editor at a number of major New York publishing houses and as editorial director of Basic Books, then a division of HarperCollins. Since then, the agency has won a slew of awards, including two Pulitzer Prizes in biography (Hirohito by Professor Herbert Bix and The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegate) as well as numerous other awards. She continues to look for well-researched, topical books written by fully credentialed academics, journalists, and recognized public intellectuals with the power to stimulate public debate on a broad range of issues including the state of our economy, political discourse, history, science, and the arts.
susan@rabiner.net
Sydelle Kramer joined the agency in 2005 and has over twenty years of experience as an agent. Her clients are a diverse group of academics, journalists, sportswriters, and memoirists. Among the books she has represented are Fun Home (Alison Bechdel); Liberty of Conscience (Martha Nussbaum); Madness: A Bipolar Life (Marya Hornbacher); The Republican War on Science (Chris Mooney); Nudge (Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein); Honky (Dalton Conley); The Great Risk Shift (Jacob Hacker); Baseball Between the Numbers (Baseball Prospectus); Asian-American Dreams (Helen Zia); Wasted (Marya Hornbacher); and Love My Rifle More Than You (Sgt. Kayla Williams).
sydellek@rabiner.net
Helena Schwarz joined the agency in 2005. She has held senior marketing positions at Oxford University Press, Basic Books, Pantheon Publishers, HarperCollins Publishers, and Columbia University Press. She has worked with such bestselling authors as Iris Chang (The Rape of Nanking), Juliet Schor (The Overworked American), Stephen L. Carter (The Culture of Disbelief), Alexander McCall Smith (The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency), John Paulos (A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper), and many others. Areas of interest include memoir, Jewish studies, popular culture, and culinary arts.
helenas@rabiner.net
Holly Bemiss joined the agency in 2007, bringing with her over a decade of book publishing experience. Her client roster includes graphic novelists, memoirists, comedians, journalists, bloggers, and entertainment writers. Recent sales include Marbles by Ellen Forney (to Gotham/Penguin), Chocolate & Vicodin by Jennette Fulda (to Pocket/Simon & Schuster), Read My Hips by Kimberly Brittingham (to Harmony/Random House), The Last of the Live Nude Girls by Sheila McClear (to Soft Skull), Relationship Obituaries by Kathleen Horan (to HarperOne), How to Build a Fire by Erin Bried (to Ballantine/Random House) and Relish by artist Lucy Knisley (to First Second Books).
hollyb@rabiner.net