
New York
Susanna Lea Associates opened its New York office in 2004.
We are always on the lookout for new voices and good stories. We represent a range of fiction and non-fiction, including literary and commercial fiction, women’s fiction, crime, thrillers, narrative non-fiction, memoir, current affairs, personal development, humor, and select young adult with crossover appeal. We work extensively with our clients throughout the publishing process to ensure close follow-through on all projects, and have a strong focus on all rights including translation, film, television, and audio.
Some of SLA New York’s recent and notable projects include international bestsellers The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning by Margareta Magnusson, How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are by Anne Berest, Audrey Diwan, Caroline de Maigret, and Sophie Mas, Mr. Peanut by Adam Ross, Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Anticancer by David Servan-Schreiber, Even Silence Has an End by Ingrid Betancourt and P.S. from Paris and Last of the Stanfields by Marc Levy. Collusion by Luke Harding was a #1 New York Times bestseller.
For internship inquiries, please contact Neyla Downs at ndowns@susannalea.com.
NEWS FROM New York
Jeannie Zusy’s debut novel to Atria
North American rights to playwright Jeannie Zusy’s THE FREDRICK SISTERS ARE LIVING THE DREAM, about how the fault lines in a family are exposed when a middle-aged woman must go to the hospital to pick….
Read more >Simon Van Booy’s Latest to Godine
Winner of the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award Simon Van Booy’s Night Came With Many Stars, the epic saga of one family’s struggle to survive in the rural United States over 100 years, h….
Read more >US and UK deals for Dolen Perkins-Valdez’s “Take My Hand”
The next novel from the bestselling author of Wench has been picked up in the US by Berkeley in a major, two-book deal, and in the UK by Phoenix/Orion. Take My Hand will tell the riveting and courageo….
Read more >To be published by Flatiron as an Oprah Book: Nobel Prize Winner Denis Mukwege’s “The Power of Women”
Flatiron Books has acquired World English rights to Denis Mukwege’s arresting call to action: “The Power of Women.” It will be published as an Oprah Book in 2021. In it, Dr. Mukwege, the Nobel Prize-w….
Read more >J.M. Coetzee Recommends Peter Singer’s “Why Vegan?”
Nobel Prize winner JM Coetzee has delivered this praise for Peter Singer’s forthcoming collection of essays: “The argument is short, simple, and irrefutable; the supporting detail – what is done to an….
Read more >Séverine Auteserre Wins the Emerging Scholar Award from the ISA
SLA author of the forthcoming book The Frontlines of Peace, Séverine Autesserre has just been awarded the Emerging Scholar Award by the International Security Studies Section of the International Stud….
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