She is proud to represent renowned historian of ideas, Michael Kazin scholars of the slave trade, Marcus Rediker, and the late Ira Berlin Immigration Studies historians Mae Ngai and Erika Lee historian and BLM activist Barbara Ransby historian of the “long view” of civilization, Ian Morris Jewish Studies historian Steve Ross Religious Studies historians Steven Prothero, Paula Fredriksen, and Matt Sutton feminist historians Elaine Tyler May and the late Marilyn Yalom, as well as championing Susan Faludi’s Backlash prize-winning LGBTQ historian Lillian Faderman dance historian Lynn Garafola, and many more. Sandra is also agent to major American historians, including Pulitzer Prize-winners Eric Foner, Steven Hahn, the late Leon Litwack, and National Book Award finalist Adrienne Mayor. And, on the children's front, she is Stellaluna author/illustrator Janell Cannon's proud agent. On the mystery/thriller side, she has championed such bestsellers as Diane Mott Davidson, the Queen of the Culinary Mystery. She is, perhaps, best-known for her eye for quality fiction that sells well, representing literary icons such as Amy Tan, Maxine Hong Kingston, Lisa See, Nobel Prize-winner Mo Yan, Chitra Divakaruni, Shobha Rao, and Jasmin Darznik, among many others. Sandra looks for writers with something significant to say, who know how to say it in a distinctive and compelling way, and whose books help to make this a better world. Within her first decade of agenting, Newsweek dubbed her "the best agent in the West," Esquire chose her as one of the nation's "top five literary agents," and the Los Angeles Times proclaimed her an "über-agent" and "the most powerful literary agent on the West Coast."
in French literature, a keen editorial eye trained during a decade of university teaching, and, on the business front, her homegrown New York selling smarts. in Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley, bringing to her agenting a literary taste also honed by a Ph.D. Agent to authors in the arenas of nonfiction (including history, politics, current affairs, business, and science), and quality fiction which crosses over between literary and commercial, Sandra’s mission is to champion authors whose books make a difference.īi-coastal, Sandra was born in the Bronx, schooled in the East, and then came West to get her M.A.
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