Claire Draper
Au Literary Management
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Updated: 6/13/2026
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Agent Information
Agent Bio
Claire Draper began their career in 2016, working as an assistant and later literary agent at InkWell Management, the Bent Agency, and Azantian Literary Agency before founding Au Literary Management in 2025.
A graduate of NYU Gallatin, Claire studied Queer Diversity in Children’s Literature as an undergraduate and worked for a brief stint as a bookseller at the Strand Bookstore.
They prefer to work with books that are funny, lighthearted, romantic, and hopeful, with a fast pace, high stakes, and strong emotional development for the main characters.
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Submission Requirements
Fiction Requirements
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Genres
Genres Represented
Fiction
- Fiction
- Romance
- Young Adult - Fiction
Nonfiction
- Nonfiction
Genres Not Represented
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About Au Literary Management
Agency Profile
Founded in 2025 by Claire Draper, Au Literary Management is a NYC-based literary agency, dedicated to supporting creatives who make books that will be loved for generations–books that have dog-eared pages, broken spines, and notes in the margins. We know that the only thing separating the draft on a computer from a spot on a bookshelf is the right advocate in an artist’s corner. With award-winners and bestsellers, tear jerkers and comedy genius, illustrations and prose, fact and fiction, Au Literary Management will always be an agency of well-loved books.
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