Frances Goldin (AAR), President & Principal
Frances Goldin has worked in publishing for 63 years, as an agent and as editor-in-chief of a children's publishing company;
she founded the Frances Goldin Literary Agency and sold her first book in 1977. Authored by Black anthropologist Betty Lou
Valentine and titled
Hustling and Other Hard Work, the book continued to receive royalties for 32 years. One of the agency's
strengths is that many of its books continue to earn royalties long after publication. Reflecting Goldin's radical politics,
the Agency concentrates on literary fiction and serious, controversial, progressive non-fiction.
Among her clients are
Barbara Kingsolver, who she has represented for all of her 14 books, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Dorothy Allison, Frances Fox Piven,
Martin Duberman, Adrienne Rich, Staceyann Chin, Martin Espada, Alix Dobkin, Juan Gonzales, Fred Jerome, Staughton Lynd,
iconic feminists including Charlotte Bunch and Esther Newton, and Mike Wallace, co-author with Ted Burroughs of the Pulitzer
Prize-winning
Gotham. Her newest clients are Norman Finkelstein and Frank Serpico. Believing that "a better world is possible,"
it is her goal to get books published that will help speed that process. With the rising tide of the right threatening the
free exchange of ideas, this agency will continue to provide analysis and clarity, one book at a time.
Email: fg(at)goldinlit.com
Ellen Geiger (AAR), Vice President & Senior Agent
Ellen Geiger is a 25-year veteran of the publishing, film and television industries, and represents a diverse range of authors
of literary and commercial fiction and non-fiction. Representative works in nonfiction include
The Corporation: The Pathological
Pursuit of Profit and Power, by Joel Bakan,
The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever by Molly Caldwell Crosby,
Gringos in Paradise by Barry Golson,
Kabul in Winter by Ann Jones,
The Scimitar and the Veil: Extraordinary Women of
Islam by Jennifer Heath,
The God of Old by Harvard biblical scholar James L. Kugel, and
If the Creek Don't Rise: My Life Out West with the
Last Black Widow of the Civil War, a memoir by Rita Williams. In fiction, recent works include
We'll Always Have Parrots by
multiple award-winner Donna Andrews,
The Saddlemaker's Wife by Agatha winner Earlene Fowler,
The Sunday List of Dreams by
bestseller Kris Radish, and
Snow Blind by the Anthony and Gumshoe Award-winning mother/daughter team P.J. Tracy.
She is also proud to represent the interests of the late children's book author Margaret Wise Brown, whose iconic works
include
Goodnight Moon and
The Runaway Bunny.
She is especially interested in cutting-edge issues, progressive politics, memoir, narrative nonfiction, women's issues,
popular culture, religion, science, and history.
She is a past president of New York Women in Film and Television and is a member of the Women's Media Group.
Email: eg(at)goldinlit.com
Please note that Ellen is now only accepting queries and submissions online using a website called Submishmash.com.
For queries to Ellen, please click here.
Sam Stoloff (AAR), Vice President & Senior Agent
Sam joined the Agency in 1997. He has an MFA in creative writing from Cornell University, and completed and successfully
defended a doctoral dissertation in American Studies, also at Cornell, though he never completed the paperwork to receive
the degree. He handles literary fiction, memoir, history, accessible sociology and philosophy, cultural studies,
serious journalism, and narrative and topical nonfiction which have a progressive orientation.
Among his clients are Monika Bauerlein, Susan Bordo, Pratap Chatterjee, Daniel Duane, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Bruce Grierson,
Jean Harfenist, Deborah Harkness, Kristin Henderson, Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob, Anna Lappe, Eleanor Lerman,
Stephanie Mencimer, Rutu Modan, Carla Peterson, Janisse Ray, Gretchen Reynolds, and Siva Vaidhyanathan.
Email: ss(at)goldinlit.com
Please note that Sam is now only accepting queries and submissions online using a website called Submishmash.com.
For queries to Sam, please click here.
Matt McGowan (AAR), Rights Director, Agent
Matt has worked in publishing since 1994, joining the Frances Goldin Agency in 2001, after stints at McIntosh & Otis,
Fromm International, St. Martin's Press, and Abbeville Press. He is looking for emotionally, intellectually, and formally
adventurous work of all kinds and is particularly interested in writers who believe nonfiction can be as artful as fiction.
Among his clients are Eula Biss, Dave Bledin, Dan Crane (aka Bjorn Turoque), John D'Agata, Brian Evenson, Dale Hrabi, and
Jamie Trecker. In 2008 he was featured in
Poets & Writers' "Twenty-One Agents You Should Know." His clients have won or
been shortlisted for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award, The New York Public Library Young Lions Award, the O. Henry Award, the Graywolf
Literary Nonfiction Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Rona Jaffe Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. As rights director,
he also handles foreign, film and television, audio, and first serial rights for all the agency's titles.
Email: mm(at)goldinlit.com
Sarah Bridgins, Office Manager/Associate Agent
The newest member of the agency, Sarah joined us in 2008. Sarah is a graduate of the Communications program at NYU and
came to the agency after having spent two years as a Subsidiary Rights Assistant at Penguin.
Email: sb(at)goldinlit.com
