The Strothman Agency is a literary agency dedicated to promoting authors of significant books through the entire publishing cycle. Our offices are located in historic Quincy Market in Boston, Massachusetts.

Our extensive inside experience and knowledge of both the editorial and business aspects of publishing—how editors and publishers make decisions, the economics of publishing, the importance of focused and strategic marketing and publicity, the nuances of contracts—as well as our many contacts among independent booksellers give us the ability to provide effective support to our clients.

We specialize in works of narrative non-fiction and literary fiction. For information on how to submit a query, click here.

The Strothman Agency is a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives and the Authors Guild.

Latest News

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    The Strothman Agency is moving to Beacon Hill.

    As of July 28th, we will be located at 6 Beacon Street, Suite 810, Boston MA 02108

    June 2008— We sold MIT professor and YouTube star Walter Lewin's FOR THE LOVE OF PHYSICS, written with Warren Goldstein, which will tell how the author grew up during and after World War II, how he became a scientist, and how he fell in love -- first with physics and then with the craft of teaching physics to students, to Emily Loose at Free Press, in a major deal, in a pre-empt, by Wendy Strothman of The Strothman Agency (World).

    April 2008— RIDDLED WITH LIFE author Marlene Zuk's essay in New York Times.

    March 2008—Michael Kodas' HIGH CRIMES was reviewed in the New York Times.

    February 2008—Richard Ford's THE RACE CARD was reviewed in the New York Times.

    January 2008—Anthony Lewis' FREEDOM FOR THE THOUGHT THAT WE HATE is reviewed on the front page of the New York Times Book Review.

    January 2008—Anthony Lewis' FREEDOM FOR THE THOUGHT THAT WE HATE is reviewed in The Christian Science Monitor.

    December 2007—David Blight's A SLAVE NO MORE was reviewed in the New York Times. Blight was also interviewed on NPR's Fresh Air.

    December 2007—Lou Ureneck's BACKCAST was reviewed in the Boston Globe and the Seattle Times.

    November 2007—Lou Ureneck'sBACKCASTwon the National Outdoor Book Award.

    November 2007—David Blight's A SLAVE NO MORE is a November “Significant 7” Spotlight title on Amazon.com.

    November 2007—Lou Ureneck's Backcast was reviewed in the Star-Ledger,which called it "a compelling read, part true adventure, part commentary on fatherhood and life's twists and turns."

    November 2007—Lou Ureneck's Backcast received a terrific review from National Geographic Traveler magazine, which also picked Backcast as the Book of the Month.

    November 2007—Raymond Arsenault won the 2007 Frank L. and Harriet C. Owsley Award.

    November 2007—Christopher Lane's Shyness was reviewed in the Wall Street Journal and L.A. Times.

    November 2007—Freada Kapor Klein, author of Giving Notice, has an article in the San Francisco Chronicle.

    November 2007—Rachel Herz's The Scent of Desire was reviewed in USA Today.

    October 2007— Portfolio bought world rights for influential Silicon Valley lawyer Gary Reback's Free The Market, for publication in early 2009.

    October 2007—Ronald Florence's Lawrence and Aaronsohn is briefly noted in the New Yorker.

    October 2007—Chris Lane's Shyness received a starred review in Library Journal, and is reviewed in the New York Observer.

    October 2007—Rachel Herz, author of Scent of Desire is interviewed in the October issue of Self Magazine.

    October 2007—Anthony Lewis' Freedom for the Thought that We Hate received a Starred Review in Kirkus.

    October 2007—Lou Ureneck's Backcast was reveiwed by the Keene Sentinel.

    October 2007—Freada Kapor Klein's Giving Notice was mentioned in the NYT Fashion & Style Section and Newsday.

    October 2007—Anthony T. Kronman's Education's End was reviewed in the San Francisco Chronicle.

    October 2007—Rachel Herz's Scent of Desire was featured in an article by Reuters.

    October 2007—Anthony Kronman's Education's End was reviewed in the Wall Street Journal.

  • September 2007—Rachel Herz, author of The Scent of Desire, was interviewed by Library Journal.
  • September 2007—David Brion Davis' Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World won the 2007 Connecticut Book Award for Nonfiction.
  • September 2007— David Blight's A Slave No More received a Starred Review in Kirkus, which called it "a powerful, welcome addition to the Civil War library ."
  • September 2007— George Gibson at Walker bought long-time minister of All Souls Church in Manhattan, Forrest Church’s,  In God We Trust,  which traces the faith—or religious political agenda—of the nation’s most influential presidents and the shifting line of separation between church and state.
  • September 2007— Chris Lane's Shyness was reviewed in Scientific American Magazine
  • September 2007— Lou Ureneck's Backcast was reviewed in Boston Magazine, which said "... this recounting of an Alaskan journey that Ureneck, head of BU's journalism program, took with his son manages to more than stand out, calling to mind at times that gold standard of fish-and-family portraits."
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