Sanford J. Greenburger Associates is a major New York
literary agency
A literary agent is an agent who represents writers and their written works to publishers, theatrical producers, film producers, and film studios, and assists in sale and deal negotiation. Literary agents most often represent novelists, screenwrit ...
. It represents a wide variety of world-renowned writers, including
Franz Kafka,
Jean-Paul Sartre, as well as contemporary best-selling authors, such as
Dan Brown and
Nelson Demille
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.
The agency was founded in 1932 by Sanford J. Greenburger, an agent who pioneered
book scouting Book scouting is the process whereby a book in one language or market is brought to the attention of a publisher in another language or market.
Information
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, and was a privately owned company until 1971. Following Greenburger's death in 1971, the agency became a partnership owned by the affiliated agents. It currently has eleven partner agents, a foreign rights director, and support staff.
Sanford J. Greenburger Associates is known as a prestige launch pad for literary agents and book editors, many of whom began their publishing careers as assistants or junior agents at the agency. Several former high-level editors and publishers have also joined the agency's staff.
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Companies based in New York (state)
American literary agencies