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NAME
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Sam Stoloff
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AGENCY
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Frances Goldin Literary Agency
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AAR MEMBER
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Yes
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EMAIL
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ss@goldinlit.com
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AGENCY WEB SITE
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http://www.goldinlit.com/
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FICTION GENRES
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Literary Fiction
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Short Stories
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Multi-Cultural
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Offbeat/Quirky
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Graphic Novels
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NONFICTION GENRES
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History
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Sports
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Biography
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Food & Lifestyle
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Politics
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Science
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Drama/Music
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Multi-Cultural
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Cookbooks
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Memoirs
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Current Affairs
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Women's Issues
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Pop Culture
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Narrative
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Psychology
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Nature/Ecology
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Film & Entertainment
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Cultural/Social Issues
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Humor
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Journalism
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CURRENT STATUS
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This agent accepts queries
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MORE INFORMATION
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SPECIAL INTERESTS
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This agency specializes in provocative social and political material
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Likes quirky & controversial
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Also interested in nonfiction pertaining to sociology, philosophy & cultural issues/topical nonfiction with progressive bent
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DOES NOT REPRESENT
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This agency does not handle screenplays, art books, self-help, or genre fiction (mysteries, science fiction, romance, horror, etc.)
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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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FACTS/TIDBITS
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His clients include Monika Bauerlein, Susan Bordo, Pratap Chatterjee, Cliff Conner, Daniel Duane, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Susanne Freidberg, Bruce Grierson, Jean Harfenist, Deborah Harkness, Mary Hays, Kristin Henderson, Mike Hudson, Anna Lappe, Stephanie Mencimer, Carla Peterson, Gretchen Reynolds, and Siva Vaidhyanathan.
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EDUCATION
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He has an MFA in creative writing and a Ph.D in American Studies, both from Cornell University
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NEW DEALS
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Non-Fiction
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History
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Politics
Professor of Criminal Justice at John Jay College Evan Mandery's KILLING COURT, a dramatic narrative history of the Supreme Court's stunning decision in 1972 to effectively end capital punishment in America, and its reversal only five years later, to Alane Mason at Norton, by Sam Stoloff at the Frances Goldin Literary Agency (NA).
Non-Fiction
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Sports
Bruce Grierson's WHAT MAKES OLGA RUN?, about a 93-year-old competitive athlete, Olga Kotelko, and the fascinating science surrounding the effects of exercise and the aging human body that holds clues for how we can live longer and lead healthier lives, to Gillian Blake at Holt, and to Craig Pyette at Random House Canada, for publication in Winter 2014, by Sam Stoloff at Frances Goldin Literary Agency.
Fiction
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Literary Fiction
Columbia MFA graduate Helene Wecker's THE GOLEM AND THE DJINNI, the story of a female golem and a male djinni, who arrive in New York in 1899 and pass for human, then meet and bond although they are from entirely different worlds, to Terry Karten at Harper, by Sam Stoloff at The Frances Goldin Literary Agency (World English).
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PAST/PRESENT CLIENTS
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Jesus Land
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Julia Scheeres
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Memoirs
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Counterpoint (September 27, 2005) |
A searing memoir about growing up in a fundamentalist family in Indiana with two adopted black brothers
View book at Amazon
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Lullabies for Little Criminals
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Heather O'Neill
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Literary Fiction
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Harper Perennial (October 17, 2006) |
In her debut novel, This American Life contributor O'Neill offers a narrator, Baby, coming of age in Montreal just before her 12th birthday
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While They're At War: The True Story of American Families on the Home Front
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Kristin Henderson
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Current Affairs
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Houghton Mifflin (February 2, 2006) |
How military spouses and families survive when their loved ones are deployed abroad.
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Too Late to Die Young
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Harriet McBryde Johnson
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Memoirs
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Picador (February 21, 2006) |
A scintillating memoir-in-stories, by a fierce, funny and compelling writer on disability issues, who died too young in 2008, about her life as a polite but outspoken agitator.
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Exit Wounds
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Rutu Modan
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Graphic Novels
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Drawn and Quarterly; ZZZ edition (December 23, 2008) |
A haunting story about the unidentified victim of a suicide bombing, and two people who struggle to learn his identity. Winner of the 2008 Will Eisner Award for best graphic novel of the year.
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Understanding the Crash
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Seth Tobocman and Doug Henwood
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Graphic Novels
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Soft Skull Press (June 8, 2010) |
A progressive account in graphic form of how bad mortgages turned into our current global financial meltdown
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LINKS
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http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/goldinlit/
This is the agent's webpage on PublishersMarketplace.com
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