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Literary agent

noun

An agent who represents an author in dealings with publishers.

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"Literary agent" Quotes from Famous Books

... business man. He knows as much about the trade of publishing as any publisher. He refuses to employ a literary agent, and personally transacts the business of placing his work—and sometimes that of his friends—in the literary and dramatic ...

— Personality in Literature • Rolfe Arnold Scott-James

... write something else, less to his taste, that will be read. The same sentiment has actuated an immense number of first-class creative artists, including Shakspere, who would have been a rare client for a literary agent.... So much for refraining from doing the precise sort of work one would prefer to do because it is not appreciated ...

— The Author's Craft • Arnold Bennett

... I was noticing a few odd things about Murell, too, which confirmed my original suspicions of him. He didn't have the firm name of his alleged publishers right, he didn't know what a literary agent was and, after claiming to have been a newsman, he consistently used the expression "news service." I know, everybody says that—everybody but newsmen. They always call a news service a "paper," especially when ...

— Four-Day Planet • Henry Beam Piper

Words linked to "Literary agent" : agent