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NAME
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Amanda "Binky" Urban
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AGENCY
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International Creative Management (ICM)
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AAR MEMBER
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EMAIL
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aurban@icmtalent.com
Does not accept email queries.
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AGENCY WEB SITE
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http://www.icmtalent.com/
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FICTION GENRES
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Literary Fiction
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Commercial Fiction
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Family Saga
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Thrillers/Suspense
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NONFICTION GENRES
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History
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Celebrity
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Biography
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Politics
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How-To
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Memoirs
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Business
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Pop Culture
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Finance
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CURRENT STATUS
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This agent is closed to queries
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MORE INFORMATION
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SPECIAL INTERESTS
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Handles many debut novels as well as established authors and celebrities
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DOES NOT REPRESENT
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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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Snail Mail: query with SASE
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FACTS/TIDBITS
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She also represents established contemporary authors such as Tobias Wolff, Cormac McCarthy, and Bret Easton Ellis
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EDUCATION
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NEW DEALS
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PAST/PRESENT CLIENTS
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The Family Orchard: A Novel
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Nomi Eve
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Literary Fiction
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Family Saga
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Alfred A. Knopf; 1st ed edition (September 26, 2000) |
History and fiction merge to create the family legends of six generations of Jews in Jerusalem
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The Little Friend
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Donna Tartt
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Commercial Fiction
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Alfred A. Knopf; 1st ed edition (October 22, 2002) |
In a small Mississippi town, Harriet Cleve Dusfresnes grows up in the shadow of her brother, who—when she was only a baby—was found hanging dead from a black-tupelo tree in their yard; his killer was never identified, nor has his family, in the years since, recovered from the tragedy
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Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our Recent History
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Kati Marton
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Politics
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Pantheon; Rough-cut edition (September 18, 2001) |
How presidential marriages have affected the tone, character, and policies of twelve administrations, from Woodrow and Edith Wilson to George W. and Laura Bush
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Caucasia
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Danzy Senna
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Literary Fiction
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Riverhead Books; (February 1, 1998) |
In 1970s Boston, Birdie and Cole are the daughters of a black father and a white mother, but to the outside world they can't be sisters: Birdie appears to be white, while Cole is black; when the parents' marriage dissolves, the girls are separated along racial lines, forcing Birdie to embark on a journey to reunite with her sister
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Find a Husband After 35 Using What I Learned at Harvard Business School
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Rachel Greenwald
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Dating/Relationships
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Ballantine Books; 1st edition (September 16, 2003) |
Harvard MBA and author Greenwald advises women to make a 12-18-month mission of finding a husband
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The Laws of Money, The Lessons of Life
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Suze Orman
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How-To
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Finance
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Free Press; (February 25, 2003) |
Financial advisor and best-selling author Orman gives her unique brand of financial wisdom and introduces readers to the eternal laws of money, which transcend time, gender, and cult
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Wait Till Next Year
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Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Memoirs
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Simon & Schuster; (June 2, 1998) |
Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, Goodwin's memoir of growing up in love with her family during the postwar era, when the corner store was a place to share stories and neighborhoods were equally divided between Dodger, Giant, and Yankee fans
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Grace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House
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Sally Bedell-Smith
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History
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Biography
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Random House (May 4, 2004) |
Vanity Fair contributing editor Smith has written a glossy, gossipy, but serious account of the Kennedys’ White House Years
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Alibi: A Novel
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Joseph Kanon
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Thrillers/Suspense
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Military/Espionage
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Henry Holt and Co. (April 12, 2005) |
Adam Miller, a war crimes investigator, is drawn into romance, murder, and political cover-ups amid the streets and canals of post-WWII Venice
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Backward-Facing Man: A Novel
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Don Silver
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Ecco (September 1, 2005) |
When legal secretary, Stardust, encounters a disheveled man on a Philadelphia commuter train who notes cryptically that he knew her deceased mother, Stardust attempts to to piece together the story and uncovers the secrets in her mother's past as well as find her mother's former radicial lovers
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A Family Daughter: A Novel
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Maile Meloy
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Literary Fiction
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Family Saga
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Scribner (February 7, 2006) |
The Family Santerre, first introduced by Maile Meloy in her 2003 novel, Liars and Saints, is back again, inspected and reported on from another angle
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