Alison Lewis
Frances Goldin Literary Agency
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Updated: 9/28/2025
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Agent Information
Agent Bio
Alison Lewis joined the agency in 2022, following six years at The Zoë Pagnamenta Agency.
She began her career at WW Norton, and for five years, was editor of the literary magazine American Chordata.
She represents a wide range of nonfiction, spanning cultural criticism, history, investigative journalism, popular science, social science, and literary true crime, as well as select literary fiction.
She is particularly drawn to writers with a distinctive voice and perspective, excellent prose, and a sense of social or political imagination and responsibility.
She loves vivid narratives and characters, hidden or forgotten worlds, and writers pushing the boundaries of preconceived ideas and entrenched structures of power.
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Submission Requirements
Fiction Requirements
Nonfiction Requirements
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Genres
Genres Represented
Fiction
- Literary Fiction
Nonfiction
- Cultural Criticism
- History
- Investigative Journalism
- Popular Science
- Social Science
- True Crime
Genres Not Represented
None listed or not available
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About Frances Goldin Literary Agency
Agency Profile
The Frances Goldin Literary Agency has been the leading progressive agency in New York since it was established by Frances Goldin in 1977. We represent work in many genres, from literary and speculative fiction to investigative journalism, graphic novels to literary essays, history and sociology to memoir and biography.
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