Fairbank Literary Representation



A small selective literary agency in Harvard Square, Fairbank Literary's clients range from first-time authors to international best-sellers, prize-winning journalists to professionals considered expert in their fields. Our tastes tend toward literary fiction and topical/narrative non-fiction, with a strong interest in women’s voices, quality of life, class and race issues, war and its psychological effect on people and nations, and the intersection of art and science. We are most likely to take on works that are socially significant, newsworthy, meaningful beyond providing escapism, and that speak to the human quest for truth. 

At present, we are actively seeking literary fiction, Latino/Latina works, biographies, one-subject narrative non-fiction, current events, history, art and architecture, food and wine, sports, science, and pop culture.  

Please visit our webpage at Publishers Marketplace for more frequent updates. 


GENRES & SPECIALTIES
  General fiction
Mystery
Reference
Biography  Business/investing/finance
History
Sports
African-American
Latino
Race and class issues
Health
Travel
Lifestyle
Cookbooks
Science
Architecture and Design
Food and Wine
Regional interest nonfiction 
International voices

No Romance, Poetry, Science Fiction, Young Adult, or Children's works


QUERIES

 

Send queries by snail mail or email.  Submissions should consist of a one page query letter containing a synopsis of the work.  If you are querying by snail mail, you may include a short sample chapter.  Include a SASE for any materials to be returned to you.  If sending by e-mail, please note that we do not open email attachments.  

If you are unfamiliar with query writing, please take time to research several of the many excellent websites and reference books on the subject before submitting.

Allow four to six weeks for a query response. 

No reading or editing fees charged, ever.

Please note that if your work is much more than 100,000 words, it's probably too long.

No phone calls, please; no faxed queries


CONTACTS
 
Sorche Elizabeth Fairbank
Contact for all inquiries: queries@fairbankliterary.com
Matthew Frederick
Scout for books on sports and architecture
matt@fairbankliterary.com 

LEADING CLIENTS 
Robin
Moore
International best-selling author of more than 50 books, including The French Connection, The Green Berets, The Happy Hooker, The Hunt For Bin Laden, and Hunting Down Saddam..  Fairbank Literary represents more than thirty of Moore’s previously published works, available for reprint, electronic, game and film rights. 
Xaviera
 Hollander
Upon its release in 1972, The Happy Hooker  leaped to the top of the bestseller lists, ultimately selling nearly 16 million copies. Hollander went on to author more than a dozen subsequent works, and wrote the "Call Me Madam" column in Penthouse Magazine. Her latest book was her memoir, Child No More (Harper Collins, 2004).  Fairbank Literary is currently representing Ms. Hollander on a variety of fiction and non-fiction projects.
Rex
Burns
Edgar winner & host of STARZEncore Mystery Channel’s Anatomy of a Mystery, Rex Burns is the author of seventeen books, including the long-running Gabe Wagner series for which he was nominated twice for an Edgar, winning once.
Benny
Golson
Composer, tenor saxophonist, and creator of jazz standards including ''I Remember Clifford,'' ''Stablemates,'' ''Killer Joe'' and ''Whisper Not.''  Fairbank Literary represents Mr. Golson’s memoir, A Jazz Life. 
Richard
Galli
The author of the critically acclaimed book, Rescuing Jeffrey, and the autobiographically-based novel, Of Rice and Men, a darkly comic look at war-zone army farming during the Vietnam War (Ballantine, 2006).
David
Yonke
The Religion Editor for The Toledo Blade and 2003 Ohio AP journalist of the year, Yonke's Sin, Shame & Secrets recounts the arrest and recent conviction of a Toledo priest for the brutal murder of a nun twenty-five years ago.  It was published in October 2006.
John
McAleer
Edgar-winner and author of more than a dozen books, including Rex Stout: A Biography, (Edgar recipient), and Emerson: Days of Encounter, a Pulitzer Prize nominee.  McAleer’s Korean War book, Unit Pride, was recently reissued by Lyons Press.
Penny
Rudolph
A former journalist and corporate magazine editor, her mystery novel, Listen To The Mockingbird was the winner of the 2003 Eppie Award.  Her second mystery, Thicker Than Blood, was released in 2005, and a sequel, Life Blood, is due early 2007 along with a paperback reissue of Listen To The Mockingbird.
Milt
Machlin
Editor of Argosy magazine for its long run, an Edgar winner, and the author of a number of books including Ninth Life, The Private Hell Of Hemingway (based on years of interviews and travel with Ernest Hemingway), The Search For Michael Rockefeller, Libby, and The Set Up , a follow-up novel to The French Connection, co-authored with Robin Moore. 
Kathleen
Quigley
Travel and architecture writer for various publications including New York Times, Architectural Digest, Travel & Leisure, and The Wall Street Journal, and the author of the upcoming book Spirit of Summer: At Home in the Thousand Islands.
Stacy
Bannerman
Founder and executive director of Reconciliation Works and a frequent speaker and writer on peace and the effects of war on the families of American soldiers.  She chronicles her own experiences as the spouse of a reservist in her military memoir, When the War Came Home: Peace, Protest, and the Plight of Our Citizen Soldiers, published in March 2006.
Charlotte
Forbes
Writer for The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Narrative Magazine, The Boston Globe, and other national publications.  Her short story “Sign” was included in the O. Henry Prize Stories (1999). Her new book, The Good Works of Ayela Linde was released May 2006.

RECENT SALES


TO FULL TERM:
A Mother's Triumph over Miscarriage
by Darci Klein
(Berkley/Penguin, June 2007 release)

URBAN-COUNTRY STYLE:
Big City Attitude, Small Town Charm

a design book
by Nancy Gent and Elizabeth Betts-Hickman
(Gibbs-Smith, Spring 2007 release)
to be published by Potter Craft (Clarkson Potter/Crown) in 2007
THE UNCOMMON QUILTER

by Jeanne Williamson

O. Henry Prize-winner Charlotte Forbes's
THE GOOD WORKS OF
AYELA LINDE
follows the life of an illegitimate daughter of a Mexican dressmaker.  (Arcade)

"...deftly renders the full arc of a memorable character's life."
                             -- Publisher's Weekly 


to be published by MIT Press in 2007

101 THINGS I LEARNED IN ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL:
The Ultimate Cheat Sheet for Surviving an Architectural Education

by Matthew Frederick

to be published by Carroll & Graf in 2007

DAYS OF THE ENDLESS CORVETTE

by syndicated cartoonist and
Flannery O’Conner scholar
Man Martin 

to be published by the University Press of New England in 2007

EXECUTION'S DOORSTEP: True Stories of the Innocent and Near-Damned

by Leslie Lytle 


Harvard lecturer Adam K. Webb's BEYOND THE GLOBAL CULTURE WAR, a political, historical, and philosophical account of the clash between liberal modernity and the forces that resist it. 
(Routledge, Global Horizons Series)

to be published by the University Press of Florida in 2007

THE RED TRACE OF TAIL LIGHTS:
Celebrating 50 Years of the Interstate Highway System

by Dianne Perrier

to be published by the University Press of Florida 2007, 2008, 2009

TRAVEL GUIDE SERIES (5 book deal)
by Dianne Perrier
A series of travel focusing on the great Interstate Highways of the United States; part history, part reference, and part guide to roadway enjoyment.


SOLAR REVOLUTION:
The Economic Transformation of the Global Energy Industry

by Travis Bradford, president of the Prometheus Institute for Sustainable Development.  (MIT Press) 

"...an essential read ...a positive vision of a sensible, practical, sustainable energy future."
--Bill Richardson, Governor of New Mexico aand former U.S. Secretary of Energy


LITTLE LEAGUE, BIG DREAMS
A fascinating and intimate glimpse into the Little League World Series, 2005 season, by Charles Euchner. (Sourcebooks) 

"Even those with only a passing interest in baseball will be intrigued by this fascinating look at Little League."
            -- Publisher's Weekly
to be published by Poisoned Pen Press in 2007 DEATH PANS OUT
by Wendy Madar

Award-winning journalist David Yonke’s, SIN, SHAME, AND SECRETS: Crime and Cover-up in the Catholic Church.
(Continuum)

"An explosive piece of investigative journalism."     
            -- Mitch Weiss, 2004 Pulitzer Prize
               winner 


to be published by Rizzoli in 2007
SPIRIT OF SUMMER: At Home In The Thousand Islands
by Kathleen Quigley
to be published by Skyhorse Publishing in 2007 THE GREEN BERETS
reprint of the famed #1 Bestseller by Robin Moore (new paperback edition)
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ARE THERE ANY GOOD JOBS LEFT? Survival in the Age of the Disposable Worker
 
by R. William Holland,
political historian and career transition expert 
(Praeger/ Greenwood) 

"doesn't flinch from the usually taboo topic of how race, gender and age discrimination affect your chances of getting hired."
          -- Barbara Ehrenreich , best
             selling author of Nickel and
             Dimed and Bait and Switch
 

Peace activist and founder of Reconciliation Works, Stacy Bannerman's
WHEN THE WAR CAME HOME:
An Inside Account of Citizen Soldiers and The Families Left Behind
 
(Continuum) 

THE SORCERER'S CIRCLE
by award-winning mystery writer Michael Siverling.
(St. Martin’s Press) 

The "Vietnam M*A*S*H," author Richard Galli's OF RICE AND MEN is a darkly comic look at war-zone Army farming in Vietnam.  (Ballantine/Presidio Press)  

"unfolds with beguiling tenderness, humor, and wisdom..."
          -- Booklist 
"a clever, quirky, surprisingly uncynical view of Vietnam"
          -- Publisher's Weekly


THICKER THAN BLOOD
by Penny Rudolph
(Poisoned Pen Press) 

"...one of the most refreshing new series heroines to wander into the crime genre in quite a while."
            -- Booklist 


THE LAST NINE INNINGS: How Baseball Works
, by Charles Euchner, in which the author uses the epic Seventh Game of the 2001 World Series to explain the inner workings of baseball (Sourcebooks) 

"You’ll never watch a baseball game the same way." 
          -- Andrew Zimbalist, Author of
            Baseball
and Billions 


THE FRENCH CONNECTION
the famous best-selling novel by Robin Moore
(St. Martin's Press) 

"One of the most interesting true crime books ever written..."
            -- Los Angeles Times


THE SET UP
 
a novel by Milt Machlin and Robin Moore
(Lyons Press) 

UNIT PRIDE

a novel by by Edgar winner
John McAleer
(Lyons Press) 

HUNTING DOWN SADDAM:
The Inside Story of the Search and Capture

by best-selling author Robin Moore
(St. Martin's Press) 

NEUTRAL WAR

a novel by Hal Gold 
(Lyons Press) 

REACT: CIA Black Ops
a novel by  Robin Moore and Chuck Lightfoot 
(Lyons Press) 
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