In January, 2007, Tracy Brown announced the formation of the Tracy Brown Literary Agency. He began his career as an agent in 2003 in association with Wendy Sherman Associates.

Tracy Brown has held senior editorial and executive positions in book publishing for close to 30 years. He has been Editor in Chief of Book-of-the-Month Club, Editorial Director of Back Bay/Little Brown, Editorial Director of Quality Paperback Book Club, Executive Editor at Holt, Editor at Viking Penguin, and, Senior Editor at Ballantine.

During his career as an editor Tracy Brown acquired and published such New York Times trade paperback bestsellers as LIFE AND DEATH IN SHANGHAI by Nien Cheng, AND THE BAND PLAYED ON by Randy Shilts, REAGAN'S AMERICA by Garry Wills, REAL BOYS by William Pollack, and THE SIX DAY WAR by Michael Oren. Other paperback acquisitions included FATHER AND SON by Larry Brown, FIGHT CLUB by Chuck Palahniuk, and THE BLACK FLOWER by Howard Bahr.

In hardcover Brown edited books by such esteemed writers as Rikki Ducornet, Barry Gifford, Jan Kerouac, Greil Marcus, Roland Merullo, Barry Miles, Stewart O'Nan, Salman Rushdie, Jeff Shaara, and Alison Weir.

Lucette Lagnado; Esther Perel; Courtney E. Martin; Jessica Valenti; Deborah Siegel; Jennifer Pozner; Daphne Uviller; Wendy Shanker; Clifton Leaf; Wayne Johnson; Gene Baur; Brian Hicks.

THE MAN IN THE WHITE SHARKSKIN SUIT: A JEWISH FAMILY'S EXODUS FROM OLD CAIRO TO THE NEW WORLD by Lucette Lagnado (Ecco); MATING IN CAPTIVITY: UNLOCKING EROTIC INTELLIGENCE by Esther Perel (HarperCollins); PERFECT GIRLS, STARVING DAUGHTERS: HOW THE QUEST FOR PERFECTION IS HARMING YOUNG WOMEN by Courtney E. Martin (Free Press/Berkley); FARM SANCTUARY: CHANGING HEARTS AND MINDS ABOUT ANIMALS AND FOOD by Gene Baur (Touchstone); FULL FRONTAL FEMINISM: A YOUNG WOMAN'S GUIDE TO WHY FEMINISM MATTERS by Jessica Valenti (Seal Press)

ARE YOU MY GURU: MY SEARCH FOR SOMEONE (ANYONE!) TO FIX ME by Wendy Shanker (NAL)
DO-GOODER: A QUEST TO UNDERSTAND THE IMPETUS FOR ALTRUISM AND ITS IMPLICATIONS by Courtney E. Martin (Beacon Press)
BACHELORS, BRIDEZILLAS AND BEAUTIFUL CORPSES: UNRAVELING REALITY TV's TWISTED FAIRY TALES by Jennifer Pozner (Seal Press)
THE NAKED TRUTH: YOUNG, BEAUTIFUL, AND (HIV) POSITIVE by Marvelyn Brown (Amistad/HarperCollins)
WHY WE'RE LOSING THE WAR ON CANCER by Clifton Leaf (Knopf)
BLACK SMOKE: A WOMAN'S JOURNEY OF HEALING, WILD LOVE, AND TRANSFORMATION IN THE AMAZON by Margaret De Wys (Sterling)
FOUNDATIONS OF EMPIRE: WARFARE AND RESISTANCE IN COLONIAL AMERICA by Daniel Garcia, Ph.D. (The New Press)
JOHN ROSS: THE GREATEST CHEROKEE by Brian Hicks (Grove/Atlantic)

MATING IN CAPTIVITY by Esther Perel sold in Brazil, Czech Republic; France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey, UK

PERFECT GIRLS, STARVING DAUGHTERS by Courtney E. Martin sold in UK and Norway

foreign sales: Jenny Meyer at Jenny Meyer Literary Agency (jenny@meyerlit.com)

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