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What Robin is looking for
Robin Straus is a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives and the Women's Media Group. She graduated from Wellesley College with a BA in art history and English literature and received her M.B.A. from New York University. Prior to becoming an agent, she served as a subsidiary rights manager at Random House and Doubleday and worked in editorial at Little, Brown. She was an agent at the Wallace & Sheil Agency before founding Robin Straus Agency, Inc. in 1983. In 2014 she acquired The Wallace Literary Agency. Robin Straus Agency, Inc. represents high quality adult fiction and non-fiction including literary and commercial fiction, narrative non-fiction, women's fiction, memoirs, hi
Notable sales & clients
- The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
- Ardennes 1944 by Antony Beevor
- Corduroy Mansions
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What genres does Robin Straus represent?
Robin Straus represents Young Adult, Romance, Horror, Commercial Fiction, Women's Fiction, Memoir, Narrative Nonfiction, Poetry.
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