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.
Singer was the Nobel Prize-winning Polish-American author of novels, children’s books, essays, plays, and hundreds of short stories.
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.
Estates I Manage
Satirist, Nation critic, Dr. Strangelove co-writer, and “eggheaded prankster,” Southern was called “the most useful writer in America.”
Stephen B. Oates
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.
Maurice Valency
Maurice Valency, playwright, author, critic and professor of drama, was best know for his adaptations of plays by Jean Giraudoux and Friedrich Dürrenmatt.
Vicki Cobb
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.