is vice president and
agent at Andrea Brown
Literary Agency, which was named one of the top ten literary agencies
by Writer's Digest this year. She has been with the agency
since
1998. She specializes in all categories of children's books, both
fiction and
nonfiction. She also specializes in adult historical fiction and
nonfiction,
literary fiction, memoir, photography, and narrative nonfiction. Her
clients
include best selling and award winning authors, illustrators, and
photographers.
Some recent titles are: I
Saw Him Standing There: Paul McCartney
(Watson-Guptil, Billboard Books), Dancing
in the Streets of Brooklyn (Random
House), K Is For Kitten (Putnam), Escape
From Heart (Harcourt Brace), What It's Really Like To Be A
Children's
Author (Quill Driver Books/World
Dancer Press), Liberty
Street (Walker), How People Learned to Fly (HarperCollins),
Monsoon Summer
(Random House) and The
Squishiness of Things (Knopf).
Laura has a B.A. from Cornell University, where she graduated Magna Cum
Laude,
and a Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Virginia. She
has
worked as a freelance editor in the United States and Japan, and has
nine years
of experience teaching as a faculty member in the English Departments
of the
University of Virginia, Osaka University of Foreign Studies, and Santa
Clara
University. She has published articles in various scholarly journals in
the
United States and internationally, including Women's Studies: An
Interdisciplinary Journal; British
and American Studies; and Victorians Institute Journal.
