Anderson Literary Management, LLC

Kathleen Anderson is an award-winning editor and agent who has been working in the publishing business since 1979—first as an editor at W.W. Norton, where she published DEAR AMERICA: Letters Home From Vietnam that became an Emmy award-winning documentary, then as a senior editor at Poseidon, formerly a division of Simon & Schuster, where she published Mary Gaitskill and Ursula Hegi. She is a recipient of the Tony Godwin Award, given to an outstanding American editor under 35 who is then sent to England to learn about British publishing.  She was also selected to be among the first group of editorial fellows from the United States to attend the Jerusalem Book Fair. She specializes in adult and young adult literary fiction, narrative nonfiction, American and European history, literary journalism, nature and travel writing, memoir, and biography. A graduate of Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, she is a member of PEN, the Author's Guild, and the Association of American Literary Agents (AALA). Prominent authors include bestselling literary journalist Jeff Sharlet and the novelist Emma Donoghue, author of ROOM, the book and the screenplay that was nominated for an Academy Award. 

If you'd like your work to be considered for representation, please send the first 35 pages of a completed work of fiction or a proposal and two chapters of a work of nonfiction to  kathleen@andersonliterary.com.

Freelance Editorial Services are also selectively available on an hourly basis.