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literary agent

noun

  1. a person who manages the business affairs of an author


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Derived Forms

  • literary agency, noun

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Example Sentences

“A number of high school kids devised this elaborate plan,” according to literary agent Catherine Crawford.

Pippa Middleton has parted company with her literary agent following the lacklustre reception to her first book.

Nicole, my literary agent, seemed to have trouble accepting my liberation.

But first, Broadwell found a literary agent and a willing publisher at Penguin Press.

“I loathe everything that man stands for,” she exclaimed to literary agent and editor Steve Wasserman.

I am going to pose as your businessmanyour literary agent who pockets ten per cent.

McWhing will never take you for an acting manager or literary agent,I saidYou dont look it.

The literary agent reads it and decides what house is most likely to publish such a book.

I think the literary agent can be, and as time goes on, will be, of increasing use to the publisher.

If you are temperamentally unfit to sell your own writings, get a competent literary agent to do the job for you.

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