While I love to represent a wide variety of books, I do have a particular enthusiasm for narrative nonfiction, memoir and journalists who are writing about current events. I opened my own agency in 2003 after nearly 18 years with the Ellen Levine Literary Agency. For submission guidelines through my website, please see the bottom of this page.

Azadeh Moaveni, TIME correspondent for Iran and the Middle East, author of the memoirs LIPSTICK JIHAD (Public Affairs) and HONEYMOON IN TEHRAN (Random House);
Owen Matthews, Newsweek Moscow bureau chief and author of the generational memoir STALIN'S CHILDREN (Bloomsbury);
Antonia Juhasz, author of THE TYRANNY OF OIL and THE BUSH AGENDA (Morrow/HarperCollins);
Loretta Napoleoni, economist and author of ROGUE ECONOMICS (Seven Stories Press);
Eric Simons, environmental journalist, author of DARWIN SLEPT HERE (Overlook Press);
Dr. Robert Marion, author of the forthcoming GENETICS ROUNDS (Kaplan Publishing;
Richard S. Gallagher, WHAT TO SAY TO A PORCUPINE (Amacom)
Novelist Christian Bauman (THE ICE BENEATH YOU, VOODOO LOUNGE and IN HOBOKEN)
Novelist Michael Fitzgerald, RADIANT DAYS (Counterpoint
Novelist and screenwriter Catherine Jones, THE CEREMONY (Full Glass Films)

THE BEST DEMOCRACY MONEY CAN BUY and ARMED MADHOUSE by Greg Palast; CAUGHT INSIDE: A SURFER'S YEAR ON THE CALIFORNIA COAST by Daniel Duane; THE MATH GENE by Keith Devlin; INTERN BLUES by Robert Marion, M.D., SEX TIPS FOR STRAIGHT WOMEN FROM A GAY MAN by Dan Anderson and Maggie Berman;

Recent sales: BLACK TIDE by Antonia Juhasz on the BP Gulf disaster, to Wiley; MAONOMICS by Loretta Napoleoni, Seven Stories Press; Michelle Dammon Loyalka, EATING BITTERNESS: Stories from the Frontlines of China's Great Urban Migration, University of California Press THE LANGUAGE OF TRUST based on The New Word Order program developed by Van Kampen Investment Services, by Michael Maslansky, Scott West, Gary DeMoss and David Saylor to Prentice Hall Press
Forthcoming: HEIDEGGER'S GLASSES, a novel by Thaisa Frank from Counterpoint Nov 2010. Recently published: TERRORISM AND THE ECONOMY by Loretta Napoleoni, Seven Stories Press.

Translation rights to THREE CUPS OF TEA by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin, on behalf of Elizabeth Kaplan Literary Agency, sold in 35 territories.

I am current Chair of the Association of Authors' Representatives' International Committee and attend the Frankfurt Book Fair annually.
I have attended the following writers conferences:
American Independent Writers, Washington DC
International Women's Writing Guild, New York
The Write Stuff, Allentown, PA
Philadelphia Writers Conference
Small Press Center's Writers Conference, New York
Marymount Manhattan Writers Conference, New York
ASJA Writers Conference, New York
Sewanee Writers Conference, Sewanee, Tennessee

Online through my website at: http://dianafinchliteraryagency.blogspot.com/

Or by mail with an SASE to: Diana Finch Literary Agency, 116 West 23rd St, Suite 500, New York, NY 10011. Additional materials such as a sample chapter, chapter outline or proposal description may be included.

No phone inquiries, thanks.

Elizabeth Kaplan Literary Agency, Inc.