Susan Schulman
FOUNDER & LITERARY AGENT
Susan Schulman Literary Agency LLC specializes in representing motion picture, television and allied rights, foreign rights, live stage including commercial theater, opera and dance adaptations, new media rights including e-book and digital applications, and other subsidiary rights on behalf of North American publishers and literary agents. The agency also represents its own clients domestically and internationally in all markets. The agency has a particular interest in fiction and non-fiction books for, by and about women and women's issues and interests, as well as all levels of children’s books including picture books, middle-grade and young adult, history, science, pop culture, and memoir. Our primary interest however is in authors and their projects which explore big ideas about the world and being human.
Estates I Manage
Margaret Cheney was a biographer of unusual versatility and the author of the popular biography Tesla: Man out of Time.
Vicki Cobb was the multi award-winning “Julia Child” of hands-on children’s science writing, a former teacher with a playful and accessible approach to science.
Rosa Guy was internationally acclaimed, award-winning author known for her unflinchingly direct novels for young people about Black life in urban America.
Louise Meriwether was a prominent author, journalist, essayist, and antiwar activist. Her work was beloved by her contemporary James Baldwin.
Stephen B. Oates was a historian and writer whose biography of President Abraham Lincoln, With Malice Toward None, was considered the finest one-volume study of the Civil War president.
Singer was the Nobel Prize-winning Polish-American author of novels, children’s books, essays, plays, and hundreds of short stories.
Satirist, Nation critic, Dr. Strangelove co-writer, and “eggheaded prankster,” Southern was called “the most useful writer in America.”
Walter Tevis was an American novelist and short story writer. Three of his novels were adapted into major films and one, The Queen’s Gambit, into a successful Netflix mini-series.
Maurice Valency, playwright, author, critic and professor of drama, was best know for his adaptations of plays by Jean Giraudoux and Friedrich Dürrenmatt.
Wyden, born Peter Weidenreich, in Berlin to a Jewish family, was an American journalist and writer. He wrote more than a dozen books, one of which, Bay of Pigs: The Untold Story, won an Overseas Press Club Award.
Current Clients
André Alexis is the author of Fifteen Dogs, which won the Giller Prize, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and Canada Reads. His internationally acclaimed debut, Childhood, won the Books in Canada First Novel Award and the Trillium Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize.
David Ansell, MD, MPH is the Senior Vice President for Community Health Equity at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. He has been particularly involved in health equity work, bringing attention to higher rates of breast cancer mortality for African-American women in Chicago.
Carmichael is a multi-award-winning author of more than 20 books for young readers. A former wildlife geneticist and life-long questioner, she uses facts to reveal truths about nature, the environment, and the human condition. Whether educational nonfiction or whimsical flights of fancy, Lindsey’s books encourage critical thinking and cultivate a sense of wonder.
Jim Arnosky has published over 100 books on natural subjects and illustrated many others. He has been awarded the Christopher Medal, the Orbis Pictus Honor, the ALA Gordon Award, and Outstanding Science Book awards from the National Science Teachers Association.
Paul Campos has been teaching at Colorado Law School since 1990. Professor Campos' regular column for the Rocky Mountain News, written for a general audience on political, social, and legal issues, has developed a considerable following. A packed house, drawn by his provocative take on a wide range of topics, attends his lectures.
Psychotherapist and coach Cohen developed Second Adolescence as a framework for queer healing rooted in approaching it as a developmental life stage LGBTQ+ folks move through in adulthood after growing up in an anti-queer world. It is the messy, terrifying, exhilarating, fulfilling, and, ultimately, healing part of a queer person’s post-coming out life where we gain the experiences we missed out on, heal the wounds of our younger selves, and work towards living as our most true and free selves.
Sasha Denisova is arguably the most prominent Ukrainian playwright and theatre director in the world today. Her four war-themed plays — Six Ribs of Rage, The Hague, My Mother and the Full-Scale Invasion, and Gollum — speak more powerfully about today’s tragedy than any bold news headline or statistical report. They three have been staged multiple times across the globe.
Dr. Downs is a clinical psychologist and the bestselling author of seven books. His work is acclaimed internationally and has been published in over 27 languages. He is a sought-after conference speaker, workshop leader, and frequent media commentator on the psychology of gay men.
Linda Katherine Cutting’s Memory Slips was published in seven languages. It won the ASCAP Deems-Taylor award for excellence in writing about music and was optioned for film by Columbia-Tristar. Linda has also published in The New York Times, The London Guardian, The New Republic, The Boston Globe, and more.
Donna Eden started teaching Energy Medicine classes in the late 1970s. Since then, her work has touched millions of people across the globe, introducing them to the healing and restorative power of their body’s own energies.
Gus Edwards is an Afro-Caribbean dramatist and writer. His plays have been produced by Negro Ensemble Company of New York and throughout the US. He is also a director and educator. He has written several books addressing the concerns of African American theatre and is a tenured faculty member of Arizona State University’s theatre department, where he teaches film and theatre studies.
Elizabeth Emerson is the author of Letters from Red Farm. She has contributed material to PBS's film biography Becoming Helen Keller and written guest articles for the American Foundation for the Blind's Helen Keller Archival Collection and the Perkins Archives' newsletter.
In addition to being a fiction writer, Simon Fill is an award-winning playwright. Simon was awarded an A.S.K. American exchange playwright fellowship by the Royal Court Theatre. His play, “Night Visits,” won the Heideman Award, out of 1800 plays, from Actors Theatre of Louisville.
Richard Florida is one of the world’s leading urbanists. He is a writer and journalist, having penned several bestsellers, including the award- winning The Rise of the Creative Class and The New Urban Crisis. He co-founded CityLab, the world’s leading publication for cities and urbanism.
Cristina García is the author of eight novels. Her work has been nominated for a National Book Award and translated into fifteen languages. She’s taught at universities nationwide and is also a working playwright and visual artist.
Gracie is a playwright and the recipient of the Katherine Owens/Undermain Fund for New Work, a Theater of the Future Fellowship, the McKnight National Residency and Commission, an Ensemble Studio Theater Sloan Foundation Commission, the James E. Michael Award, the James Stevenson Prize, and she is a Samuel French OOB Festival winner.
In addition to a thriving career as a novelist, #1 Amazon best-selling author Darin Gibby is also one of the country’s premiere patent attorneys and a partner at the prestigious firm of Kilpatrick Townsend.
José Cruz González is an acclaimed playwright and director whose plays have been produced nationally. He has received multiple awards including the Orlin Corey Medallion by the Children’s Theatre Foundation.
An internationally-recognized scholar of constitutional law and corporate governance, Kent Greenfield is Professor of Law and Dean’s Distinguished Scholar at Boston College Law School.
Christopher Hart has had over 100 books published, which have been translated into 20 languages and sold more than 8 million copies. Several of his titles have become #1 Bestsellers in the art category. He has been featured on the cover of Publisher’s Weekly.
James has published ten books and won a best fiction award from Northern California Publishers and Authors. Her Hollis Morgan Mysteries series was sold to A&E/Lifetime. James was recent past-Chair of Bouchercon, Inc. and is a member of Sisters-in-Crime and Mystery Writers of America.
Richard Kalinoski is an acclaimed playwright whose influence derives from an eclectic pool of resources and experiences. His most well-known play is Beast on the Moon. Kalinoski has created riveting and accessible drama for all kinds of audiences.
Lowell, MSW, LICSW, is an astute observer of both human behavior and the natural world. As a trauma specialist, Pamela Lowell expertly guides us to the connections between therapy, the life of an artist, and the natural world as a place of healing.
Jennifer received the Kennedy Center’s Fund for New American Plays Award, Charlotte Woolard Award for Promising New Voice in American Theatre, and Roger Stevens Award for Playwrights of Extraordinary Promise. She won SCR’s California Playwrights Competition. She was one of seven playwrights commissioned by Playwrights’ Arena and Center Theatre Group for THE HOTEL PLAY. She is one of five playwrights chosen for the 2017/18 Humanitas PlayLA workshop.
Marcom has received honors from the Lannan, Whiting, and US Artists’ Foundations and was a finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. Her books have been New York Times Notable Book, Runner-Up for the PEN/ Hemingway Award, and won the PEN/USA Award. She was a Fulbright Fellow. Marcom is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Virginia and founder of The New American Story Project
Karyl McBride, Ph.D., L.M.F.T.,
Dr. Karyl McBride is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Denver with more than 40 years in public and private practice. She specializes in treating clients with dysfunctional family issues. For the past 20 years, McBride has been involved in private research, writing, and clinical work concerning children of narcissistic parents.
Michael Ondaatje is the author of seven novels, a memoir, a nonfiction book on film, and several books of poetry. His novel The English Patient won the Booker Prize in 1992 and became a major motion picture that won nine Academy Awards, including Best Film; Anil’s Ghost won the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the Prix Médicis.
Padowicz has written numerous books but is best known for his series of memoirs. The first, Mother & Me, which won Foreword Magazine's Book of the Year award, is about his escape from the Nazis with his estranged mother when he was seven years old. Once a prize-winning documentary film-maker, among other things, Padowicz now focuses solely on writing.
Dorothy Hinshaw Patent is the author of many science and nature books for children. She received a Ph.D. in zoology from the UC Berkely. She has been honored with many awards throughout her career, among them, most recently, the Edward O. Wilson Biodiversity Technology Pioneer Award for Exemplary Advocation of Biodiversity Through the Authorship of Children’s Science Literature.
Tilt Parenting Founder & CEO Debbie Reber is a parenting activist, bestselling author, podcast host, and speaker. Her work has been instrumental in reframing societal perceptions, moving from a focus on “fixing” outliers to empowering families and creating inclusive, supportive systems for these exceptional children.
Marilynne Robinson is the author of four novels, including Gilead (2005), winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; Home (2008), winner of the Orange Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and Lila (2014), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her first novel, Housekeeping (1980), won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. She has been the recipient of many awards and is Professor Emeritus at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
Deborah Lee Rose’s children’s books have been launched Into space, won five national STEM book awards, and are read around the world. She writes about STEM and kids’ funny adventures at school and in life. She has created groundbreaking STEM apps and exhibits for UC Berkeley’s renowned Lawrence Hall of Science, and is a writer and editor for the American Society for Engineering Education.
Brad Ross is a composer known for his memorable melodies. He composes Musical Theater, Pop and Classical music. Ross is a recipient of the Richard Rodgers Development Grant.
Louis Sachar is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Holes, which won the Newbery Medal and the National Book Award. His other books include Small Steps, winner of the Schneider Family Book Award; The Cardturner, a Publishers Weekly Best Book, There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom, which won more than twenty-four state children’s choice awards voted on exclusively by children, and many more. His first book for adults, The Magician of Tiger Castle, will be published in August 2025.
Antonio Sacre is a bilingual Cuban and Irish-American writer living in Los Angeles. He works primarily in television, where his writing focuses on multicultural family dynamics. Antonio tells universal stories with a fresh, authentic voice and culturally-specific details.
Diane Samuels’s play Kindertransport won the Verity Bargate and Meyer-Whitworth Awards, and has been performed all over the world. Recent work includes Poppy + George, Palace Theatre, Watford, 2016; This Is Me, snapshots of girlhood, interactive memoir as monologue, Chickenshed, 2018.
A public scholar, anthropologist, and internationally recognized expert on genocide and feminicide in contemporary Guatemala, Sanford is a writer, human rights advocate and Lehman Professor of Excellence. A John Simon Guggenheim Fellow and Bunting Peace Fellow at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, she has also held fellowships at the US Institute for Peace, the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, and Fulbright Scholar awards at the Universidad Libre and Javeriana University in Bogota, among others.
Alexandra Siy is an award-winning science writer and photographer of books for children and young adults. Her work reveals worlds where trees tell stories, spiders are superheroes, a sneeze is a micro-second adventure, and the interstellar age is now.
Carolyn Schlam is an award winning American painter, sculptor and glass artist. She studied painting with Norman Raeben in Carnegie Hall Studios. Carolyn is also a writer, and she has combined her love of art with her passion for writing in her published books on art, a novel and many periodicals.
Lisa Diana Shapiro (writer/actor) is book and lyric writer of Samantha Spade, Ace Detective and Princess Phooey, both commissioned and produced at TADA! Youth Theater in New York. Samantha Spade was named National Youth Arts Best New Musical 2014 and Lisa was short-listed for the Artists of Choice award in 2015, and in residence at Goodspeed Musicals in 2019.
Paul Schofield’s research focuses on moral and political philosophy as well as the philosophy of film. He teaches classes on ethics and politics, the history of philosophy, and the Philosophy of Film. His first book, Duty to Self: Moral, Political, and Legal Self-Relation was published in 2021 by Oxford University Press.
Daniel J. Solove is the Bernard Professor of Intellectual Property and Technology Law at the George Washington University Law School. He founded TeachPrivacy, a company providing privacy and data security training. One of the world’s leading experts in privacy law, Solove is the author of more than 10 books and more than 100 articles. He is the most-cited legal scholar born after 1970.
Don Steinberg's writing has appeared in the New Yorker, GQ, Harper's, McSweeney's, Spy, Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Huffington Post, and other publications. He lives outside Philadelphia with his wife and two sons.
Kathrine Switzer has long been one of running’s most iconic figures. Not just for breaking barriers as the first woman to officially run the Boston Marathon in 1967, but also for creating positive global social change. Because of her, millions of women are now empowered by the simple act of running.
Udel is Director of the Tam Institute of Jewish Studies and associate professor of Yiddish language, literature, and culture at Emory University. She is also the author of Never Better!: The Modern Jewish Picaresque, winner of the 2017 National Jewish Book Award. Her research has been supported by fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Center for Jewish History, Harvard University’s Center for Jewish Studies, the Covenant Foundation, and Emory’s Fox Center for Humanistic Research.
Myron Uhlberg is the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of a number of children’s books. His memoir, Hands of My Father, shares his journey as a deaf child raised by deaf parents in a hearing world.
Robert Viagas is an editor, author, journalist and teacher with more than thirty-five years’ experience, most it working on Broadway with Playbill Inc., the iconic theatre program company. The founding editor of Playbill.com, Playbill’s theatre news website, Viagas has published 19 books on the performing arts, and served as a nominator for the annual Tony Awards.
Andrew Ward is the author of several award winning historical works including River Run Red: The Fort Pillow Massacre in the American Civil War and When I Rise: The Story of the Fisk Jubilee Singers. A former contributing editor and essayist at the Atlantic Monthly, commentator for NPR’s All Things Considered, and columnist for the Washington Post, Ward has also written numerous articles for American Heritage and National Geographic, as well as documentary screenplays.
Andrew Wreggitt & Rebecca Shaw
Andrew Wreggitt is the award-winning writer of 16 movies for television. He has won three Canadian Screen/Gemini awards for best writing and been nominated on four other occasions. He’s won six Alberta Motion Picture Industry awards for writing and three Writers Guild of Canada Awards. Wreggitt and his wife, Rebecca Shaw, have been writing plays together since 1991.
Howard Yaruss is an economist, professor, attorney, businessman, and activist who greatly enjoys explaining complex issues in a clear, interesting and easily accessible way. He has taught a variety of courses on economics and business, and currently teaches at New York University. Previously, he served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Radian Group, one of the largest guarantors of debt in the world.
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